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Published: 2012-11-05 22:33:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 8710; Favourites: 188; Downloads: 0
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Anomalocaris. The Earth's first apex predator. Before anything crawled on land, the ocean was filled with our crunchy beginnings, and this guy was king. A four to six foot long super shrimp, devouring trilobites left and right.Fourth and final design for the new batch of Cotton Crustacean shirts. What am I talking about, you ask? Go here - cottoncrustacean.com. Our Kickstarter campaign goes live in a couple of days! Soon, you can have this guy swimming across your chest.
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Coolest predator that I thank and bless for everything we have todayΒ
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The predator that created the human race (unintentionally)
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Without predators life on earth simply wouldn't exist.
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Beautiful work, this creature is really strange it seems coming from an other planet, but it's only from an other time
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Thank you so much! Hard to imagine that this shrimp was the king of the Earth for millions of years.
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The hardest part is to imagine the earth at the time of this shrimp
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I didn't know that they were so large.
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Yeah, they were giants compared to just about every thing else in the sea at that time, as far as I know.
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I always thought they were some 30cm long. But 4-6 foot... wow.
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My favorite fossil of all. Of course, I also love the other Burgess odd-balls, Wiwaxia and Opabinia, but Anomalocaris is much more awesome.
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Awesome! A lot of crazy things came out of that area. Wiwaxia are like the Star Wars version of Anomalocaris! Love em.
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Hehehehe, that's a good one. 
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