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Published: 2019-07-05 09:08:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 25909; Favourites: 765; Downloads: 0
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Otro para la colección de monstruos marinos
"Omnidens" fue un lobopodio gigante (emparentado con los actuales gusanos de terciopelo), que pudo haber alcanzado unos dos metros de longitud, aunque solo se conoce su aparato bucal (prácticamente idéntico al del lobopodio Pambdelurion; no es imposible que se trate de una especie gigante de éste. Si la interpretación del fósil es correcta, habría sido uno de los mayores animales del Cámbrico- y fácilmente el monstruo marino más antiguo que he dibujado hasta ahora Another for the sea monster collection
"Omnidens" was a giant lobopodian (related to today's velvet worms) which may have grown up to maybe 2 m long, although only its mouth apparatus is known (practically identical to that of the smaller Pambdelurion; it may be just a giant species of the latter). If this interpretation is correct, then it would've been one of the largest known Cambrian animals, and easily the oldest sea monster I've doodled thus far
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It's like a sea scorpion had a baby with a velvet worm
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One de mis animales favoritos de todos los tiempos. Esperemos que se descubra más de esta magnífica criatura pronto. Es hermosamente aterradora, y tu arte captura esa belleza espeluznante a la perfección
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Holly fucking shit! That's increadible. Never heard of this animal before.
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...This is it... the most badass of worms. No other worm will ever reach this level of magnificence!
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No, this was the A L A S K A N B U L L W O R M even before the A L A S K A N B U L L W O R M was conceived.
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If you think about it, Primeval actually predicted this monstrosity. Or the concept of giant worms living in the Cambrian at least, minus the sulphur air and parasitic babies part.
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IIRC the worms from Primeval actually look sort of like priapulids, so maybe inspired by them, or even by Omnidens itself which was once thought to be a giant priapulid? The show aired shortly after Omnidens was first described...
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Even then, I think it's quite a funny coincidence.
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Not to sound childish but this Omnidens looks the result of what happens when a Megalograptus and a centipede play seven minutes in heaven.
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It looks AWESOME, it must be said, but it STILL looks horrifying!
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WHAT THE HADES?!? That creature looks like something out of a 1980s Horror movie brought to horrifying life!
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The worst thing about it is it can’t be burned to death.
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Omnidens is super creepy to begin with, but there's much creepier predators out there
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Imagine a herd of Dicynodonts running from a Camarasaur
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Why in the name of everything's that sacred would anyone want to burn this beauty?
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Cool, yes, but couldn’t it NOT be the size of a small car? I don’t think I would be AMAZINGLY happy if it appeared from underneath the seafloor behind me.
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I would, really.
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Only issue is it would probably see a human as a threat. And just to clarify in case you didn’t get the joke, I was doing a “Burn it with fire” joke that people make with large bugs.
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Hmmm... would it? How much could they see, to begin with? And if it could see, would it react to us in fright, seeing as it would have never seen or sensed anything quite like us? Maybe it wouldn´t care. When Darwin arrived to the Galapagos and other islands during his voyage, many animals were completely unafraid.
I hate the burn it with fire joke, but that's because I'm a naturalist who has seen far too many beautiful, sometimes rare bugs squashed or harmed by ignorant people. :/
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Oh. Well, didn’t mean to offend anyone. Honestly, I’m only really freaked out by roaches and huntsman spiders.
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everyone is so easily offended
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Hey, he just took it the wrong way.
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extraordinario, me recuerda a algunos de los monstruos de Lovecraft
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The recent re-assessment as a Lobopodian might bring the length down closer to 1.5 meters, the 2 meter estimate was from when it was thought to be a penis-worm.
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I’ve never been able to take the name ‘penis worm’ seriously.
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In Russian it translates to "Sea dick".
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I figured.
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Well all we have is a mouth, so it could have been either really. Still 1.5 meters is definitely one of the biggest Cambrian animals.
Incidentally there is an Anomalocarid mouth"Peytoia" thing at the South Australian Museum here in Adelaide that beats this, it's not on display but I have seen it. It's not published at all for some reason and no one seems interested in describing it unfortunately. But the actual circular mouth is similar in diameter to a soccer ball, so it would have been a big one, but the scientists there have warned that we don't know if it was a big animal with a normal mouth or a smaller animal with a huge mouth. My jaw hit the floor when I saw it, because I figured it was a jellyfish. The fact we now have Aegirocassis means that this sort of thing is easier to understand being possible now though.
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