Walking with Monsters- Arthropods

BBC's Walking w/ Monsters




cut to focus on arthropods or ESS class

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Education

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• walking
• with
• monsters

[Afterschave]

Damn, that giant sea arthropod is awesome!

[FluffyPurpleKitty]

OBOY!! Finally! A documentary just boring enough to help me study, but cool enough to keep my interest. ^-^

[TheDz3tv]

Fuck man, back then they had huge fucking awesome animals now we have lazy fucking cats. History is awesome!

[getzxn18]

Lol

[lightcache]

meh the haikuicthys here look way too fish like. they were more like lanclets.

and as mentioned, they certainly didnt swarm and attack. sigh............

[puncheex]

@RokuroCarisu: OK, I won't bore you by asking for more. Thank you for the examples.

[RokuroCarisu]

@puncheex Okay, let's start with the Anomalocaris: The species shown here is A. saron, which were only 7 inches long. Also, it is unlikely that Two Anomalocaris of the same size would fight eachother. Their claws and mouth were build for hunting creatures much smaller than themselves. A 6 ft long Anomalocaris wouldn't attack anything that's bigger than a man's hand.

Then the Haikouichtis: These were plankton eaters, not aggressive mini piranhas. They didn't even have jaws!

Want more?

[puncheex]

@RokuroCarisu: It may be inaccurate in emphasis, but please tell us about the factual inaccuracies you've uncovered.

[puncheex]

@DeadlyAntenna: Sure they have evolved, but they have found that their exterior body arrangement to be pretty well suited from the beginning, and so it has remained. This is not to say that they haven't changed internally. The shallow sea tends to be a pretty static environment, not much changed from age to age. BTW, that should be around 500 million years, not a billion.

[DeadlyAntenna]

@DeadlyAntenna "Oh wait, new threat, MEGA LOBSTER."

[DeadlyAntenna]

"This generation is terrorized by a new, improved version of arthropods.. MEGA SCORPION."

[DeadlyAntenna]

Wait.. so sea urchins haven't evolved in around a billion years?