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Aegirocassis benmoulae, man sized filter feeding anomalocaridid

Capt'n Midnight · 2015-03-13 23:24:19

"We have found the oldest example of gigantism in a freely swimming filter feeder." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14256.html 480m years ago :)

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14-03-2015 12:24am

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"We have found the oldest example of gigantism in a freely swimming filter feeder."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14256.html

480m years ago

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#2 14-03-2015 9:52am
Adam Khor

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Just beautiful

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I'm fascinated with the Anomalocaris. It looks like this species was not only a predator like we have thought. Were Anomalocaridids even true Arthropoda, or something coming from a stem group of proto-arthropds?

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