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[electric_worry]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a couple personal favorites of mine:

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[fusion_mobile]

Ya know, I've heard of the last one. I used to do all sorts of research on prehistoric animals when back in elementary school. But, now that I'm older, that info's been pushed out. >.<'

What's it called again?

[electric_worry]

Hallucigenia, like it says in the post.

[fusion_mobile]

Ahh... I guess I wasn't paying attention. XD

[skalja]

If you're interested, check out Wonderful Life, by Stephen Jay Gould. Very readable but highly scientific book about the Burgess Shale, the extremely bizarre fossil beds that Hallucigenia came from. Full of all kinds of animals that have absolutely no counterparts to today's wildlife, including my personal favorite, a ggroup of creatures so screwed up that scientists getting bits of fossils interpreted them as: a sea cucumber, a shrimp, a crustacean of some kind, a jellyfish, a sponge, or a worm.

[aronstale]

That thing looks like a fucked up evil mushroom. o_O

[deg_chick]

[new_shit]

I see a little red X. D:

[deg_chick]

Oh ya, the guy in the back of the last picture is a Marrella, thought to have evolved into crabs, spiders and trilobites.

And Hallucigenia is thought to be classified as a worm. They range from half a centimeter to 3cm long, have long tubular bodies and sport various paired appendages on both the sides/top and sides/bottom. When it was first reconstructed, it was pictures as walking on the stuff pointed appendages with tentacles waving in the water; it has more recently been reconstructed as walking on flexible legs with spines for protection in the up position. It has no known lineage to follow.

[fusion_mobile]

Yep. Thanks for the review. :)

[deg_chick]

Haha no problem. I can go on and on about weird animals. I started to take some courses in Paleoanthropology and we were just going over the Cambrian era and talking about all the freaky crap that was back then. My Plant Biology teacher is also a fan of really weird paleoplants and I love it.

[fusion_mobile]

Wow. You sound like the "me" I should have been. O:

I like your icon too. :)

[blasphemusfish]

I read about those Hallucigenia thingers in my dinosaur magazines :D yay