Gentle giants of the Cambrian

More than 500 million years ago in the Cambrian period there was an explosion of animal life. The top predators were from a group called the Anomalocarids, the largest animals of their day. But now, a new fossil suggests that not all the Anomalocarids were the fearsome killing machines scientists once thought. At least one, it seems, evolved into a gentle giant.

Read the paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...

Cambrian animations: http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: An essential round-up of science news, opinion and analysis, free in your inbox every weekday. https://go.nature.com/371OcVF

• #science_technology
• #cambrian
• #gentle_giant
• #anomalocarid
• #filter_feeder
• #filter
• #feeding
• #greenland
• #sirius
• #sirius_passet
• #north_pole
• #vinther
• #bristol
• #paleontology
• #copenhagen
• #nature
• #science
• #gee
• #henry
• #henry_gee
• #whale_shark
• #whale
• #shark
• #appendage