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Burgess Shale Fauna

Added on May 24th, 2010 by | Report Post
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wiwaxia.jpg (114 KB)

hallucingenia.jpg (212 KB)

Anomalocaris canadensis.jpg (37 KB)

Opabinia.jpg (66 KB)

Schinderhannes.jpg (53 KB)

Very very roughly, these fossils are 500 mio. years old.

From top to bottom:
Wiwaxia
Hallucigenia
Anomalocaris canadensis
Opabinia
Schinderhannes



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    Sticky

    The first and second things look like some sort of plant from The Shivering Isles.

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    metalhead2061

    Just add a few mushrooms and there you go.

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    The Matrix: Rebooted

    Read “Wonderful Life” by Stephen Jay Gould. The history of the discovery and interpretation of these fossils is amazing.

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    TunaTank

    No wonder they’re extinct. Just look at them.

    And the first one reminds me of a blue winged shell from Mario www.mariowiki.com/Spiny_Shell_%28Mario_Kart%29

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    Maxwell Edison

    No room on the ark for them, obviously.

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    Belbo

    lol, biodiversity

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    nyoki

    Beautiful. Why Hallucigenia, I wonder?

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    Miraluka

    Well, the guy to name them simply thought they looked like creatures from a halluciantion, whops, new name. For more bizarre biological names, search for the Drosophila cheapdate- and hangover-mutant and the genes Nudel (Noodle), Gurken (cucumber) and Spätzle (spaetzle), also in Drosophila. Science is fun.

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    Evilcritter

    It took them ages to figure out which were the legs on Hallucigenia.

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    Error401

    There are many things that have existed in the past that I am very thankful that are dead now.

    And who the hell is down voting everyone?

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    TGGeko

    Crazy Cambrian explosion.

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