Tribute to anomalocaris

[toffee1617]

who ever did this is my new best friend & it's AWSOM DUDE

[GirlAteCookies]

the anomalocaris at 1:33 is a picture from the kingfisher dinosuar book

[GirlAteCookies]

the anomalocaris at 1:53 is a picture from the kingfisher dinosuar book

[wawa865]

too bad its exinct, imagine if nothing went extinct, that wouild be a fascinating, strange, and dangerous world.

[Ilikemustard]

You realise the icon for this video looks like a naked woman, right?

[xNickTheBrickx]

This song will never be the same.  Neither will anomalocaris.

[IsostaticRebound]

Shrimp or predator, Anomalocaris kicks ass.

[birdsandbugs1]

Anyone know how big this animal was?

[m1me1111]

@birdsandbugs1

It's 2 feet, haha just saw this animal on Nat Geo about 5 minutes ago

[capitalflush]

scientists now think this ancient shrimp was more a wimp than a ferocious predator.



[scorpiopede]

@capitalflush Interesting, I'd love to read more about this.

[capitalflush]

@scorpiopede just search for the latest article about this on Wired com (insert period between Wired and com)

[moomoocow488]

@capitalflush anomalocaris is not a shirmp

[HEATofEAST92]

@capitalflush seriously scientists overrate bite force. but when it comes to a shrimp, that's pretty damn significant.

[StarSpawn06]

@capitalflush

it was based on the observation that anomalocaris's cuticle was not as strong as other arthropods...

however, jellyfish, cephalopods, some large worms etc are not strongly armoured either, yet they still do quite well as predators :)

[stuchly1]

@capitalflush really? and didn't you mistake this for laggania which is thought (=one of the theories is) to be a plankton feeder? it was suprificially similar to anomalocaris, so i'm just asking. i've never read anything about anomalocaris not being predatory. ;-)

[stuchly1]

@stuchly1 by the way, the critter at 1:10 1:31 and 3:03 is laggania cambria actually;-) 1:42 seems to be laggania as well, but not very precisely reconstructed ;-)

[Falcor43]

there are several pics of it eating a trilobite but it was recently figured out that it was actualy impossible for him to do so. go to msn and search it.

[whiteladyyan]

well I don't why but I always see it as an ancient Lobster.......

[N00bcrunch3r]

@whiteladyyan

Well it was an Athropod.

[googoobh]

Anomalocaris is One SEXY looking Cambrian HOTTIE !!!

[prjerry7]

Thats our great grandaddy!

[mrliampep5i]

@prjerry7 no we are from fish the anomalacaras is insects

[1acount]

remindsme of'they soldthier sole forrockenroll'whosaidit by the way?

[1acount]

i geuss religoes is ONE way of interpreting it,one of many,just cause it has the word spirit in it doesnt neccesarily make it religoes

[Elvikowsky]

1:53 Zehn Pfennig?

[SonicSanctuary]

why the hell dose everyone use this annoying song!

[Dystral]

I have a student in my class that has named himself, "Anomalocaris"! Ha!

[scorpiopede]

@mynickle To be honest, I didn't know that it had religious overtones, but now that you mention it, I guess this tribute has a bit of irony in it.

[1acount]

to be honest it,almost reminded me of,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,biologica­l armoring?or maybe about the way modern "civilized"people COLDLY supress thier emotions,thier true feelings,i think thats it, as for irony,i dont really see yet how its ironic,if you were endorsing evolution in this video it would but ironic say,since ur not i dont see how its ironic,though some of the photos do look phaked,not the picture but,well how could it take for sevral years for scientists to "Notice" the feather lines on

[1acount]

and howw those "scientists" and evryone they duped sleep in thier own sick twisted phantasy!heheheahaha

[Kory5545]

what is the name of this song

[scorpiopede]

@Kory5545 Bring me to Life by Evanscene

[RickRaptor105]

Ironically this animal looks more alien than anything science fiction films have ever come up with.

[camgordian]

hey 2:55 thats on a cover of a burges shale book i have

[br0kenbutt3rfly23]

So,the Anomalocaris was a predator...

O_O

Now I find the Anomalocaris dopant from Kamen Rider W scarier than before....

[BabaSlavinski]

LOL. A tribute to an animal that nearly brought the extinction of the first vertebrates. I approve. We won anyway. LOL

[TomMinderson]

No, Lela, you cannot have one as a pet. They don't exist anymore. But, I'll buy you a pony if you stop asking.

[HEATofEAST92]

"without doupt the strangest predator to ever live" SOME MODERN PREDATORS ARE WAY WEIRDER THAN ANOMALOCARIS.

[Redward652]

very few are, actually, because we're so used to the Modern Fauna. The Paleozoic Fauna is far stranger.

[FridaLang]

Anomalocaris vis to an Evanescence song?!?! XD

ROTFLMAO!!!

*dies*

[penguinspy]

Evanescence - Thoughtless is their best song

It's a Korn Cover

[MafiaM4]

Yo, man take as long as u want, the longer it takes the better the vid will be.

[MafiaM4]

Do u kno when Walking With Kong 3 is coming?? Plz, i luv watching the series

[scorpiopede]

It might take a long time, I have a lot of studying to do lately, and haven't had time to work on artwork or the actual vid. But I am happy that you like it and are enthusiastic for the vid. I'll try to do it as soon as possible.

[1acount]

an archeopterix fossil(the fact that they r so extremly rare and,minus the feathers looks juast about exactly like other therapod dinosaurs,i for one,dont believe in chance or fate, supports what i'm gonna type next)how do we know the "experts,the so called"scientists wernt so desparate to "prove""evolution" that they ddnt just draw in the so called "feather "lines" to "prove thier bulshit theory!?,oh i just detected the irony!want to know what it is?the waay that they talk about sleeping inthat

[LittleBlueHeron]

Pretty good there, the pic at 2:17 - it reminds me of this exhibit at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History - I've seen it twice now.

BTW: Genus names are always capitalized, and species names are always lowercase. ;)

I love Evanescence, too.

[scorpiopede]

Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[rainsgirl1889]

I like this video. Anomalocaris fascinates me. What is the thing at 3:10-3:14? I've never seen that image before. Can't be a Cambrian fossil. Is it a sculpture of a 7-eyed Opabinia or something?

[scorpiopede]

Thanks, it fascinates me as well. And that thing is a fossil of one of Anomalocaris's two arms that it uses to capture prey.

[Moseslawgiver]

Great video!

Wow! That is a weird critter, aint it?

5 stars!

[scorpiopede]

Thanks, it most certainly is.

[instantstar41]

Awesome video!!

Omg!! I love Evanescence!!!!

Totally 5 stars! =)

[scorpiopede]

Thank you very much!