Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

Re:Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-ol... by nsajko on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:16PM (#28463724)

There are more reconstructions and some photos in the linked paper, e.g.: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/1a42ffff-eeca-4...

Meeting one of these would be quite uncanny, as it's very different from the animals that live today.

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Re:Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-ol... by masklinn on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:53AM (#28466740)

Eh it’s not that bad, it has plenty of weird structures but from afar it has a feeling of giant bugs.

It’s huge (for the time) but reconstructions of its various cousins (the other radiodonts) look way, way weirder.

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Re:Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-ol... by Sebb767 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:19PM (#28464676)

A 3d animation would be highly interesting, though we could probably really only guess at how this thing actually moved.

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