And the wrong side of the ocean’s surface, looks like 🤔
born 2 l8
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Almost every depiction of Anomalocaris, particularly in those CGI documentaries, make members of this genus look like enormous hideous sea monsters.
But in reality, these things are small, all less than 40 cm (like the largest ones are slightly more than a foot for us in the USA).
Giants of that era I guess and certainly an order of magnitude or more larger than superficially similar modern day relatives like sea monkeys and fairy shrimp. But they’re like the size of a lobster, we’d probably be eating them to extinction these days if they weren’t already extinct.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks for ruining my day.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think my “cat” has a good chunk of Anomalocaris genes.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tell it to give them back!
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Not with that attitude, I won’t.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 weeks ago
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Well, I’m crocheting one so jokes on you :)
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Best I can do is a big GMO prawn with no legs
- Colossal Biosciences
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
2 l8
I think I lost brain cells on the kid-pidgin
Tracaine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That looks like a chelicerate from subnautica.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m doing my best