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Cool predator! |
tangor
msg:4396587 | 8:44 am on Dec 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
A group of scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island in South Australia has turned up a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs: razor serrations in a circular mouth, claws at the front of its head, and compound eyes on stalks.
Tagged Anomalocaris (roughly “irregular shrimp”, or perhaps “abnormal shrimp”), the meter-long beauty seems to be a top predator from 500 million years ago. |
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For the life of me, I can't quite figure out how to make this internet related... other than it was the internet that revealed this creature. The bold is my enjoyment of shrimp... we have a lot of that here in the Gulf. :)
And too dang expensive. :(
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lucy24
msg:4396593 | 10:07 am on Dec 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs |
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I am sorry to say that the immediate mental picture raised by this phrase is the Creature from the Black Lagoon wearing 3-D goggles :(
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tangor
msg:4396605 | 10:59 am on Dec 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I met and shook hands with the Creature From the Black Lagoon. I was a wee tyke back then, but was great fun (1955, revealing my age a bit). Ricou Browning was his name (did the underwater shots). Julie Adams, Richard Denning and Richard Carlson (a prick) were also present. There were no shrimp served that day.
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