When Giant 'Shrimps' Ruled the Earth

[@D05D]

Shrimps now: I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I give the word

[@specturv9836]

I now you rule our plates

[@Chemagon]

Now every night I go on a plate, then the people ate

[@thepoetryofaugust]

They once were terrified when they saw my size

[@thepoetryofaugust]

My species would eat away, For the food that I gave away, that's what they would say

[@thepoetryofaugust]

A few million years we had it all but then are species began to fall

[@LC-wh5dd]

Rest In Peace Anomalocaris, I cried for you when I watched your tribute video

[@kemphoss-4791]

They didn't deserve to die

[@popoumu]

want her back :(((

[@Stefan-ij1qb]

bruh

[@Guest-ok8fl]

Its just a animal chill

[@messier8888]

@•アノマロカリス• (Anomalocaris) X2

[@kenzilla1237]

Looks like the early stages of spore

[@blazeelvirafirehoof7844]

they should make a new Spore where you can make theese things.

[@VossMarionette]

That 10 year old game is overdue for a spiritual successor!

[@artonline01]

Looks like the early stages of learning to use English.

[@crispychknwings9829]

Basically

[@expression3639]

I clicked on this video from the side bar to come and make exactly this comment.

[@FPrimusUnicron]

So nobody though it was weird when they found "2" weird shrimps side by side in a very exact placement more than once?

[@KOTEBANAROT]

they just chillin bro

[@Menaceblue3]

@@KOTEBANAROT 2 shrimps just chilling in the ocean.... side by side.... next to each other....

[@camreyes1819]

homies

[@ThomasBomb45]

They were monogamous shrimps. Mate for life and never leave their partners side (This has no scientific basis I just made it up)

[@liltimothy8109]

@@ThomasBomb45 that’s wholesome as fuck

[@DarthCuddlefluff]

There is nothing scarier to me than anomalocaris. I sometimes have nightmares of being in the Cambrian oceans and being eaten alive by these things.

[@BenGThomas]

Haha, it certainly would be pretty terrifying to come face to face with one of these in the murky depths of the ocean...

[@timbos7592]

Ben G Thomas Somewhat remind me of the Slipper Lobster, met one of those for the first time when I did my diver's test for sub 30 meter diving. Really love them! (Wikipedia link for the curious!: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipper_lobster)

[@VOMITQUEEN]

Darth Cuddlefluff just be thankful that they're no longer around...

[@Valdagast]

Looks like something that Lovecraft would think up.

[@vanillajack5925]

Did you dream you were a trilobite?

[@legionbeast]

The program "Planet of life" documented the Trilobite feeding more clearly. People in Japan made a full scale model of one with an operational mouth. This mouth was then "fed" trilobite models, biting them at various angles. The results were numerous trilobites that had W shaped chunks taken out of them, suggesting it would manipulate the trilobites around and bite into them at different angles, though that it was possible that some managed to wriggle free after the first bite and die elsewhere.

[@theoheinrich529]

Came here from the tribute.

[@danielchequer5842]

"Without a soul my spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold Until you find it there and lead it back home"

[@JurassicTrance]

Same

[@dominicanplug6550]

what tribute

[@dragapault6576]

What’s tribute

[@MrDrManPerson]

@@dominicanplug6550 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIrWf4Wkj7eanZo

[@WobblesandBean]

These dudes are one of my favorite animals. The story of how they were discovered is just so fascinating, they were so immensely advanced beyond anything else in their day, and they're also just plain cool-looking. Even adorably so!

[@reeeeeeeman8792]

They are quite adorable

[@Tricosis.]

Such an underrated channel. Very informative. No seconds feel wasted! You're doing a fantastic job, keep it up!

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you, I'm very glad you feel that way! :D

[@therongjr]

"Only" one meter long? If that thing was swimming towards me, I would *SHRIEK*!!!

[@usagi2934]

I'm a grown man but I'd probably cry

[@koolnomi95]

The Cambrian is full of such weird creatures they could probably make up a top 10 list of "Weirdest Creatures to Have Ever Lived"

[@BenGThomas]

Haha, true

[@mysharkyproductions3274]

look up a top 10 list of weird extinct creatures, you are pretty much right

[@neovxr]

but most are actually precambric i.e. ediacara

[@acropolismauve8496]

Namacub95 no more top 10 lists PLEASE!

[@legendarypussydestroyer6943]

Creatures of the Ediacara are weirder.

[@alicyjinx8923]

Wonder if they taste good with cocktail sauce or butter

[@rickautry2759]

Let it sit split open in the fridge overnight to take away that hydrogen sulfide 'farts on an elevator' funk, then tease the meat out of the shell, fry it in butter with a bit of garlic, served in it's split shell with a choice of Hoisin sauce or Benihana Teriyaki. Hey, I've got the traps, there's just the problem of not having a rope long enough to reach!

[@DrMackSplackem]

You could make a pretty mean Pad Thai.

[@angrychipmunkonfire3]

On a bed of angel hair pasta

[@Vasharan]

On their home planet, they enjoy eating a tasty you!

[@Kenshi_2900]

If you have tasted an insect or arachnid, Anomalocaris Would Taste like it........With A bit of Salt

[@evodolka]

these are 1 of my favorite Cambrian sea creatures, i discovered them through the Pokemon Anorith who is based off of them

[@BenGThomas]

That's really cool, I didn't even realise there was a Pokemon based on them!

[@evodolka]

yeah it was a fossil Pokemon introduced in Gen 3 that was a Bug type

[@professoroak3411]

True

[@rubberraptor6450]

evodolka Let’s not forget that if fed on our ancestors

[@worfoz]

..when I realize the new generation of scientists are inspired by Pokemon, I´ll know I am too old for this world...

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Back then: monster Today: salad

[@37thraven]

Let's be real, we still cringe & freak out at tiny spiders. Almost anybody coming across that 4 foot waterbeast swimming today, would still scream "monster"

[@ironmark8975]

Excellent research work. One can really appreciate the extra steps you made on making this video, the history behind the various fossil discoveries, the speculative evolutionary adaptations people made about it's genus. So well done!

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed :)

[@joshuafogg6600]

Anomolocsrids: *_*in haughty British accents*_* We are _prawns,_ and don't you forget it!"

[@joshuafogg6600]

@Troll King The Scots and especially the Welsh would vehemently disagree with you on that.

[@squishh7805]

Tom's Ghost This exchange is so funny to me for some reason

[@SenorTucano]

All hail the prawn lords!

[@lukeskywalker9016]

Bri'ish*

[@maxgreece1]

Fascinating as ever. I had no idea of the number of species nor the longevity of the basic design. I wonder if any of them were mud crawlers sieving through the sand to scare hiding creatures up that they could then grab and eat? A couple of their designs looked suitable for that kind of lifestyle.

[@BenGThomas]

That could be very possible, perhaps that's what Hurdia was using its carapace for?

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

Probably most hurdiids were either like that or benthic predators grabbing smaller prey. And then there’s the filter-feeding Aegirocassis, which is just weird.

[@spiicypotato]

May Anomalocaris rest in peace. I cry every time I'm reminded of his passing. He may have been a predator but GODDAMNIT HE STUCK TO HIS MORALS ALL THE WAY THROUGH. He was a good man who did what he had to do to survive. To some, they may view Anomalocaris as simply an atrocious predator of the seas. But in lieu, I will remember him for so much more. I will remember him for his fun ways at parties. I will remember him for how he came to help us when we were at our lowest. I will remember him for when he united us in division through words alone. I WILL REMEMBER! THE WAYYY ANOMALOCARIS REJECTED THE DARK FORCES OF EVIL IN THE WORLD! *I WILL REMEMBER!* THE WAY IN WHICH ANOMALOCARIS STOOD UP AGAINST THE WAYS OF RECKLESSNESS AND SAID *NAY!* I will remember the way Anomalocaris told us, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." How will you remember Anomalocaris?

[@Estradiol_Gaming]

SAVE ME FROM THE NOOOOOTHING IVE BECOOOOOOOOME

[@chrisyeomans5547]

WAKE ME UP INSIDE

[@darksoulsaddict2204]

CAN’T WAKE UP

[@denabrown4342]

Coursework at Miscatonic University praised these creatures.❤️💐🦎🦕🌟

[@lane_d_assassin1698]

What lol im confused

[@HUNTERSDREAM]

Meanwhile in Monster Hunter World Coral Highlands...

[@reneemujica142]

OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THE SAME THING

[@dirandrous7682]

Lol

[@sirfijoe450]

What’s that a reference to. I don’t play monster hunter world

[@HUNTERSDREAM]

@@sirfijoe450 The Grandfather Mantagrell Endemic Life.

[@sirfijoe450]

Marco Hazard Oh, thank you. I wanted to see what it looked like.

[@sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635]

0:05 Oh look It's the Attack on Titan worm

[@Monarchist_greek42891]

its a ancient worm idiot

[@nathaliefernandez6431]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@Pinkification]

Came from a tribute video dedicated to these homies

[@juliankirby9880]

A fossil arthropod eye was found in the Cambrian rocks, it has more lenses than the most complex arthropod eye today. Was listening to a lecture on KZbin and heard about it

[@silkworm6861]

Thanks for the video! It's quite amazing that one of these guys popped up in the Devonian; just imagine what hasn't been discovered yet.

[@BenGThomas]

No problem, thanks for watching :) And yes I hadn't realised that there was a species known from that time, it's incredible that the group lasted so much longer than we originally thought.

[@johndifrancisco3642]

Silkworm, I like your imagination :)

[@BartJBols]

+90% of all species that ever lived on earth did not leave fossils, most of them we will never know. This biasses more towards large creatures since their chances as a species to leave preserved fossils are lower due to less individuals and lower total biomass.

[@johndifrancisco3642]

Who you call'n a biass? =P

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

First we thought that all the Cambrian weirdos died out in the Ordovician extinction, then *_bam, Hunsrück Slate!_*

[@jalisaalanaye1662]

Absolutely amazing all these creatures existed. It’s so interesting to think about all the sea creatures we’ve yet to discover because there so far down and deep into the ocean.

[@Twiggyay]

"it's the Cambrian explosion~"

[@jaddatir9004]

Twiggyay underated....if only people knew lol

[@barnykirashi]

Bill Wurtz

[@bentisiphone]

Yes

[@zekeiwa5837]

why did he do it, bros?

[@honoraryanglo7141]

TRUST THE PLAN ~Q

[@FrankWhiteMutts]

Because he keeps moving forward

[@r.k845]

HE JUST KEEPS MOVING FORWARD

[@fraserhenderson7839]

Stephen J. Gould introduced me long ago to these creatures and many others with his book "Wonderful Life" about precambrian fossil beds at Burgess Shales in British Columbia, Canada. You, however, have just provided me with almost every bit of information I possess concerning the anomolocaris beyond it's name and a rough idea of it's appearance. This is not a commonly seen topic and I am very pleased to have run across it. Thanks very much.

[@BenGThomas]

No problem, thanks so much for watching! Wonderful Life was a big inspiration for me, and I'm planning to do a video soon about the Burgess Shale itself and Gould's ideas that he wrote about in the book :)

[@minmimimi2810]

After reading chaper 137 of AOT this pop in my recommendations lmao, And also the video about hallucigenia..

[@aliestereroan]

same thing

[@Monarchist_greek42891]

get out of here, this isn't aot this is for normal people, *NEVER SPOIL PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED AOT*

[@ddazxi]

I was waiting for an aot comment

[@ddazxi]

@@Monarchist_greek42891 it isn't even a spoiler if you don't know what it is

[@sak4933]

I first saw Anomalocaris in Walking with Monsters years ago, but I never remembered it's name. It's really cool to get more details on how it lived and was discovered now! On a somewhat related note, I'm shocked that I never saw the similarities between Anomalocaris and Anorith before. How did I not see that?

[@timnordstrom7383]

@•アノマロカリス• (Anomalocaris) holy shit

[@angryerika]

@@timnordstrom7383 it's really him 🤯🤯

[@celebrei]

It just keeps moving forward until all its enemies are destroyed

[@Rini2g]

True lmao

[@VictorIV0310]

Wrong animal, Einstein

[@Monarchist_greek42891]

stfu this video isn't for aot, its for normal people

[@exrafrxst]

Falco grice the Flying titan Yet your name is falco🤦‍♂️

[@Monarchist_greek42891]

@@exrafrxst okay? Doesn't mean im falco, falco doesn't even exist

[@rotodexthepaleontologist2267]

Damn. Shrimp is my favorite food. Wonder how one of these suckers would have tasted!

[@BenGThomas]

Quite tasty I imagine :D

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

Mmmmm. Anomalocaris fettuccine alfredo.

[@andt1994]

Same here lol very filling I assume

[@rattyeely]

These things must have looked so mesmerizing swimming through the water

[@pauls5745]

yeah, graceful probably with rippling wavy motion. just like we like seeing rays swim

[@camreyes1819]

you're right, it would have been amazing

[@paulbags123]

Amazing video. These animals don’t seem so strange if you’ve ever gone fishing and accidentally caught a lobster you’ll know what I mean. you can almost imagine them swimming around the ocean today.

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks :) And that would certainly be quite something if you were to suddenly catch an anomalocarid haha :D

[@therealzilch]

Arthur White- yes, Isopods are ultracool.

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

I wish they were

[@Mantheman23]

KZbin knew what it was doing when it recommended me this after watching all tomorrow’s.

[@dogancanozgokceler3234]

These animals were very beautiful and interesting. Forget about Jurassic Park. I want to see Cambriyen Aquarium...

[@runeanonymous9760]

I remember watching Walking With Monsters when I was younger and being entranced by these things

[@TheDiloEmpire]

Anomalacaris earth's first super predator

[@Viatoreptil]

Thank you so much for this video! The research of this group is fun to keep tabs on. And I had no clue about the discovery of Schinderhannes revealing that they survived the Cambrian. That is awesome!

[@Mark16v15]

You mentioned in passing the "common ancestor" of the anomalocarid and the trilobite. Maybe you could do a feature on that animal, or speculate on why we haven't found it yet in the fossil record.

[@RokuroCarisu]

The closest to it is probably _Kiisortoqia,_ a mecheiran arthropod that shares a few similarities with anomalocarids. The megacheirans are ancestors to the arachnomorphs, which include trilobites along with horseshoe crabs, eurypterids and arachnids.

[@randomcomment6068]

Could be made In an alien lab for all we know...

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

⁠@@RokuroCarisu Actually we have *no idea* whether _Kiisortoqia_ was a megacheiran, a weird radiodont, an artiopod/early arthropod that happned to converge on the radiodont appendages or something else entirely! Also, radiodonts pretty much _are_ the common ancestors of trilobites, or at least a branch off from whatever that was. (Edit: the radiodont possibility got squashed due to the exoskeleton)

[@RokuroCarisu]

@@IC1101-Capinatator It's exoskeleton points towards it being a true arthropod rather than a radiodont.

[@Alpharius93]

That was amazing. I've certainly learned a lot! Now I want an anomolacaris plushie =3

[@DamageMaximo]

...

[@bevoburn]

All i can think is how good those would be steamed with garlic butter.

[@jatinagrawal1586]

Am I the only one who read "when giant simps ruled the Earth"

[@G_Nisam]

lol me too

[@orangenade3707]

Eren yeager

[@ThomasBomb45]

@@orangenade3707 damn

[@whoisheiforgothisname2103]

@@orangenade3707 Usurper

[@elchubacabra2840]

To find aliens don't look in the sky Look in the water

[@viorp5267]

(an a few dozen million years back)

[@excesssivelyboot6495]

Viorp try 400 million years ago, these were the first predators to ever exist on our planet

[@37thraven]

For real, all the sci-fi i've ever watched and wanted to write started flashing before my eyes

[@Loloooo765]

Bro it just my reflection...

[@jaibhimadevi5805]

I can't help but imagine those frontal appendages being held in an extended position while Anomalocaris is hunting, body staying relatively still in relation to prey until ideal striking position- the appendages then whipping around the prey in an instant, drawing it to the mouth for an initial crippling bite, then holding it ( or picking it back up) and manipulating it to eat at leisure. I see it as a cruise/acquire/ambush predator.

[@gaylereid8264]

I can’t even think as quickly as you speak, Ben. To pronounce allll the tongue twisters you do w/out skipping a beat makes me envious!!! I also regret not becoming a paleotologist b/c of my enduring curiosity for this subject & you are in the most exciting of times right now in your field !!! You are Awesome ( which should mean inspiring & does for me) !!!

[@arthurobrien7424]

What a cool channel. KZbin recommendations are useful sometimes.

[@BenGThomas]

Haha, thanks so much :)

[@nekozombie]

@@mothlightmedia1936 huh:3

[@Martial-Mat]

You found some great graphics to illustrate this. Can you imagine how incredible it would be to go scuba diving in a shallow ocean full of these things?

[@leonardovergara5620]

And get swarmed.

[@dann2513]

Very well done. Your channel deserves more subs/views. Definitely underrated. Keep the videos coming, please.

[@calliopexn]

oh come on why is all of the first panel of chapter 137 in my recommended?

[@TTKMKaizen]

Would this be the real world inspiration for the generation 3 claw fossil Pokémon, Anorith?

[@BenGThomas]

Apparently it is, yes

[@mdr1696]

-Kabuto/Kabutops: Trilobite -Aerodactyl: Pterosaurs -Omanyte/Omastar: Prehistoric squid or Nautilus -Relicanth: Coelacanth -Anorith/Armaldo: Prehistoric shrimp -Lileep/Cradily: prehistoric barnacles or sea fauna -Cranidos/Rampardos: Pachycephalosaurus -Shieldon/Bastiodon: Triceratops -Archen/Archeops: Archaeopteryx -Tirtouga/Carracosta: Prototurtle -Genesect: Mesozoic era insects -Tyrunt/Tyrantrum: T-rex or Yutyrannus -Amuara/Aurorus: Amargasaurus

[@ansh6370]

@@mdr1696 Omastar is based on ammonites, anorith/armaldo are based on anomalocaris and I think tirtouga/carracosta are based on archelon.

[@dibdap2373]

@@mdr1696 dont forget tyranitar which is godzilla.

[@T_E_G]

@@dibdap2373 might aswell Valcrona/Mothra, Gidorah/Hydreigon, and Rodan/Areodactly

[@elpatron8661]

Attack on Titan Chapter 137 brought me here.

[@John.0z]

I was amazed by the Burgess Shales find when it became widely known, not being a paleontologist. Thank you for this vastly enhanced and updated presentation on this fascinating creature. Has the Halucogenia family and life cycle been similarly expanded in that intervening time?

[@jaegerzero9252]

Eldians, we here?

[@slavgugu1541]

Yo

[@codafett]

Devils assemble

[@alligatorsky98]

The paths have brought us here

[@hentaihaven2843]

Dedicate your hearts!

[@BFDT-4]

Best presentation I have ever seen on this group of animals. Not only on the anomalocaris, but also on the entire relationship between this animal and the rest of arthropoid type creatures. I certainly just learned well.

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@BFDT-4]

Ben G Thomas - well deserved!

[@Yo-Tech]

I watched one AOT video and because you flashed a picture of a Hallucigenia 4 seconds in I got recommended this video 😂

[@bojakthecat]

Great video Ben, I love the weird and wonderful animals that came after the Cambrian explosion

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks, me too :) There's something about the animals from that era that fascinates me, I'll probably be making more videos on them at some point!

[@bojakthecat]

Ben G Thomas nice one, will look forward to watching those

[@e.a.hallucigenia1128]

Thanks! Well done. Do you have a video on Hallucigenia?

[@Grand_History]

Very good video, and some awesome research was done for it. I have to favorite this one

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks so much! :)

[@Grand_History]

Ben G Thomas my pleasure :)

[@charliedilltarde9881]

Bs miller

[@Grand_History]

charlie Dilltardē ?

[@wiwaxiasilver827]

As a Wiwaxia I’m terrified of this *absolute unit* ...

[@kristynakozelkova5358]

Who is here after the random tribute video with Evanescence? :D

[@harkple]

me !!

[@Kirill-rc5ng]

0:05 why do i hear sasageyo playing

[@Tom-mt4lu]

Cool video! I love these animals that looked completely alien. Could you do a video about the evolution of dinos to birds?

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks! And yes that's something I've actually been thinking about doing recently, there's a lot to say about that period of evolution and it's really fascinating.

[@Tom-mt4lu]

cool, i look forward to it :D

[@gurt422]

Honestly the shrimp on the thumbnail looks like the Qu from all tomorrows and yet the Qu once ruled mars and I think earth to

[@WhoElseButZane]

I just wish I had a book with every animal that ever existed in it and an eternity to look through it all.

[@davidabonyi4556]

I just found you channel and OHHH MYYYYY, thank you for doing this! Anomalocaris is my all time favourite animal and I thank you for providing many new details on it.

[@mrykv2258]

I can now see where isayama got his references

[@rickautry2759]

I just love that impressionist picture at 12:01! Oh, and the intro pic that shows what one's color would be if it had been cooked!

[@PsychoIncarnate666]

I still think if it were alive today, it's still pretty friggin' big. That's a shrimp nearly 3 feet.

[@miaurye1286]

"It is not very big compared to a human" ok ok but if like in the diagram i was in a pool with anomalocaris i would certainly freak the fuck out lol

[@angganugraha8959]

i came here after read AOT chapter 137

[@REIN900]

Omg the Cambrian period was an actual living nightmare

[@The_Robert.Fletcher]

Ben you have again uploaded a really great and interesting video. When I look at my pet Neocaridina davidi (Red cherry shrimp) I shall give them the respect of such an ancestry.

[@johnnikollaj496]

Ha...Not if I was alive then. If I was armed with a scampi sauce, melted butter and lemon it would be an absolute extinction level event.

[@limitlessvoid.7457]

SHINZOU WO SASAGEYOOOOOO!!!

[@Monarchist_greek42891]

gtfo this isn't aot

[@IncompleteChimera]

I have a slightly different idea of what the longer spines could've been used for besides filter-feeding. Many Cambrian animals bottom-fed and even hid/buried themselves in the sea floor, the spines may have possibly served as sensory organs to find prey hidden in the sediment.

[@raphaello5898]

your videos are good, keep going.

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks, we will! :)

[@Aimsport-video]

Giant Shrimps were replaced by Military Intelligence.

[@343TNT]

i like the part when u said they don't need big brains i love your video man ... keep it up

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you! :D

[@angharadllewellyn2192]

Thank you very much for this video. Anomalocaris & Hallucigenia are 2 of my favorite animals.

[@kiisseli1337]

I like dogs more

[@ulyssesasteroid757]

I KNEEL, ANOMALOCARIS-SAMA

[@mellissadalby1402]

Wow! Great video. The Anomalocaris is my favorite Cambrian creature.

[@Ebstract12]

I bet they were delicious

[@Ernest_XX]

I can confirm

[@ShellvisionShellyyy]

Yup

[@KiraCrimsonXX]

@hairy otter me seeing this comment while laying with my cat

[@diggernick01]

@hairy otter there are certain animals that consume food which makes their meat from disgusting to straight up poisonous. In some cases, it is a purposeful defence mechanism.

[@ronnieronson4390]

I bet they weren’t lol

[@DanVR001]

I really like when this channel pops up in my suggested videos. KZbin recommendations have been really bad for too long.

[@paul6925]

At first I was like “oh it’s just a weird shrimp” and then they showed it’s large enough to grab your head and chew your face off!

[@StephiSensei26]

Wild! Just Wild! We should have more respect, the next time we go to an "All You Can Eat Shrimp Bar"! Wild! Anomalocaris: "Some of these Trilobites are really hard to swallow!"

[@nakenmil]

Yay! Mentions of Kosemen! He makes such great evolutionary art. :D

[@philipcharles207]

Thanks Ben. I've always been fond of these creatures. Glad to find another who shares my affection for anomalocaris.

[@MrKarnator]

Man, imagine if someone being able to make a Time-window (No not a time-machine, but a window that lets you view the past rather than travel through it) and people seeing the actual creature move, hunt, and everything, a strange sight it would be. And what a bizarre creature this is. Extremely unlikely i know, but it's interesting and fun to think about. But man it would have been rather unsettling if that creature was somehow alive today, you walking on the sandy floor of some beach and you see this thing heading towards your feet.

[@billysbilbolag2050]

These are some of my favorite animals and if we ever get genetic modification down to an artform and I get access to it, you can be damn sure you'll be seeing them in a aquarium near you

[@FlakeybrutYT]

A tribute to anomalocaris

[@650nelson]

Go into your local pet store an ask if they have any of these. Describe in fifty words or less the reaction you get, win a trip back into time when the fishing was good! I got nothing else

[@fear2963]

Lmao what if all the cambrian animals were actually parts of one big ass animal

[@njzeigler4370]

If they only existed on earth at the same time as panko and cocktail sauce..

[@GodOfConquering]

Here After Attack On Titan

[@anomalocarislover7254]

The Cambrian is one of my favorite eras. So alien and strange to imagine these things were our ancestors.

[@miskatonic763]

Thanks for the introduction.

[@BenGThomas]

No problem, thanks for watching :)

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Looking at Schinderhannes, there is great chance that if Anomalocarids had survived, then they would've evolved into a lobster-shape, then into a crab

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

"Had survived"? Strictly speaking, they were all gone by the time life began living on land, a mere 400 million years ago. Speaking generally, there is every reason to think they could have evolved into more complex animals. In fact, there are still today animals that grasp food with their appendages and bring it up to their mouths to eat. Such as the primate family of mammals, or the preying mantis.

[@rockingsushi8013]

Turns out aliens already arrived on earth

[@brigidtheirish]

The first two and a half minutes of this video describing how different scientists with different fossils of the same animal ended up thinking they were all different animals reminds me of the story of the blind men trying to describe an elephant. One thought it was a wall, another thought it was a pillar, another thought it was a rope, etc.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

One of my favorites. I wish we could find a live one, that would be interesting

[@BenGThomas]

That would be pretty amazing, I'd love to be able to see exactly how they hunted and behaved in general.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Ben G Thomas it would be like viewing an alien

[@joshuafogg6600]

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 "AHH! SOMETHING BIGGER THAN ME! SWIM AWAY!" - big shrimp's reaction to human foot landing on ocean floor near it

[@realdocproc]

My paleontology professor linked us to this video for an assignment :) nice job