http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/11/18/the-terror-of-the-cambrian-not-so-terrifying/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/11/18/the-terror-of-the-cambrian-not-so-terrifying/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:46:13 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3868#comment-1333 […] It was such an odd duck that the famous paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, whose study of bizarre Cambrian animals in the Burgess Shale Stephen Jay Gould wrote about in the book Wonderful Life,  named it after a hallucination. Morris also happened to originally reconstruct the animal in the currently non-accepted fashion, meaning perhaps that with creatures so strange, even great paleontologists can be fooled (we saw that that was the case for Anomalocaris too). […]

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/11/18/the-terror-of-the-cambrian-not-so-terrifying/comment-page-1/#comment-1186 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:52:19 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3868#comment-1186 […] few months ago I wrote about a study by scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science that showed the mighty Anomalocaris — the “terror” of the Cambrian seas — mi…. Well, it’s happened […]

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/11/18/the-terror-of-the-cambrian-not-so-terrifying/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:33:14 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=3868#comment-743 […] The Terror of the Cambrian: Not So Terrifying […]

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