And the wrong side of the ocean’s surface, looks like 🤔
born 2 l8
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month ago
Thanks for ruining my day.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I think my “cat” has a good chunk of Anomalocaris genes.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Tell it to give them back!
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Not with that attitude, I won’t.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 month ago
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Well, I’m crocheting one so jokes on you :)
blargle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Best I can do is a big GMO prawn with no legs
- Colossal Biosciences
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
2 l8
I think I lost brain cells on the kid-pidgin
Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That looks like a chelicerate from subnautica.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m doing my best