Gentle giants of the Cambrian

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Published on Mar 26, 2014

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/

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