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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by gumballindie on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:16AM (#38866632)
And not gigantic. These headlines are becoming tiresome.
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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by RuggedPineapple on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:34AM (#38866779)
That's... huge? I don't really see the problem with that. This is from the veryearly Cambrian. The first thing we tentatively assign as an 'animal' (Caveasphaera) came less then 100 million years before it. It comes from the same million year period that featured the first known arthropod (Kylinxia) and absolutely dwarfed that creature. It's 6 times longer.

The size difference between this and what else was around seems pretty close to the difference between you and an elephant.

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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by rvbissell on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:10AM (#38867141)
Right? I was expecting something akin to an ALASKAN BULL WORM

(viz. spongebob)

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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by rsynnott on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:32AM (#38866750)
It's gigantic relative what you'd expect for predators at the time, is the point.
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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by gumballindie on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:46AM (#38867597)
Yes, but casual readers such as myself expected a worm the size of a bus. The title was made to mislead people like into clicking. Why it’s called clickbait.
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Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ... by rsynnott on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:29AM (#38868119)
Clearly you have been watching too much Dune.
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