Tribute to anomalocaris

This is a tribute to Earth's first super predator, and without doupt the strangest predator to ever live, anomalocaris. The song is Bring me to life, and is by Evanescence.

This is my first tribute vid, so I hope you like it. And as always, all pictures belong to their respective owners.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Cambrian
• Opabinia
• trilobite
• hurdia
• super predator
• walking with monsters
• arthropods
• ocean predators
• extinct

[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.

[Kory5545]

what is the name of this song

[scorpiopede]

@Kory5545 Bring me to Life by Evanscene

[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.

[FridaLang]

Anomalocaris vis to an Evanescence song?!?! XD

ROTFLMAO!!!

*dies*

[Redward652]

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

[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.

[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 ;-)

[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. ;-)

[m1me1111]

@birdsandbugs1

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

[Ilikemustard]

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

[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 :)

[xNickTheBrickx]

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