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The Mighty Anomalocaris

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  • 25-04-2013 4:02am
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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    If you were swimming in the seas in the Cambrian period (540 million years ago - a while back) you would not have wanted to come across one of these bad guys.:eek:

    06.30d_Anomalocaris.jpg

    These were the Anomalocaris, the first great predator on the planet, a type of proto-arthropod that is now long extinct


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ice47loNmsc



    ...thankfully, you say.:pac::D


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    Dickerty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    I give you two words -

    Anomalocaris Thermidor.

    YUM!


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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Anomalocaris Thermidor? It's a no-no for me though as I'm allergic to seafood. Tuna as a substitute meat? I doubt it...I'd say lobster or prawn would be closer.

    Anomalocaris is kind of cute in a strange way, with its double snout that it used to grab its pray and its huge protruding bug eyes.

    All in all a weird and wonderful creature!:cool: Maybe geneticists could try to bring one back to life?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCoqgWTSRU



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoL_142abXU


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