The 500-million-year-old sea creature that looked like a spaceship

A fanclub for the 'worst car ever built,' and the geological center of NYC. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. August 07, 2019 Spaceship Sea Creature Cambroraster falcatus, a vacuum-sucking, carapace-wearing, UFO-resembling, filter-feeding arthropod was recently found in Canada’s high-altitude Burgess Shale fossil deposits and is believed to be from the Cambrian period. Read More → ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ The Trabant 601 was the most popular car in East Germany before the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Over the years, the “Trabi” (as it’s affectionately known) has been the butt of endless jokes associated with East Germany, but still has a fervent fan club 30 years later. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Just Announced: Squids of Oahu Join us on a six-day adventure next January as we plunge into the waters of Oahu to get an amphibious tour of this island, where we’ll get to learn about the region’s unique history and fragile island ecosystem. Learn more → QUEENS, NEW YORK Center of New York City Located flat on the pavement of a traffic meridian is a marker claiming to be the Geographic Center of New York City, but it’s actually in a completely different borough. Read more → WINTERHAVEN, CALIFORNIA Old Plank Road The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California. Read more → 31 Alluring Lighthouses The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. Lighthouses all around the world continue to fascinate our readers—and here are some of their favorites. Read more → From the archives Knitting Spies Whether women hid codes into fabric or used stereotypes of knitting women as a cover, there’s a history between knitting and espionage during World War I. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222