In Greenland. From Tia Ghose at LiveScience:
The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny shrimplike creatures from the sea, and likely evolved from the top predators of the day to take advantage of a bloom in new foods in its ecosystem, said study co-author Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England. More.
This is tremendous, but let’s all revise our expectations about “gigantic”:
These ancient sea monsters grew to about 70 centimeters (2.7 feet) long and “looked like something completely out of this planet,” with massive frontal appendages for grasping prey, huge eyes on stalks, and a mouth shaped like a piece of canned pineapple, Vinther told Live Science.
In term of size, this is not giant squid territory. Does anyone know why Cambrian creatures were comparatively small?
See also: What the fossils told us in their own words
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