Post cambrian monsters and WTF creatures.

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>>8796939
Not Cambrian, but pteraspis' are adorable

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This is Opabinia. There is Rule 34 of it.

>>8797023
He said Cambrian or WTF you fucking dunce. Get your garbage out of here.

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Anomalocaris was too pure for this world.

>>8796939
>picture of your mother is unavailable

huh I heard she was a giant tube sucker.

>>8797262
>Those penis legs
The Cambrian was a mistake.

>>8797223
Bullshit.

....


OH GOOD LORD

HOLY FUCK

>>8797262
Do we have a fossil of this thing?

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:DDDDD

>>8797319
yes, there are known specimens of Hallucigenia, the most aptly named critter in the fossil record
it was probably an ancestor of or early offshoot from tardigrades and velvetworms

>>8797521
If you believe this, then I have a bridge to sell you.

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>>8797521
Still not as bad as this thing

Why don't we have these creatures anymore?

>>8797589
They do in a way, many modern arthropods and annelids are direct descendants of Cambrian animals. The reason these specific creatures don't exist is because of a massive diversification of environments which led to a subsequent diversification of Cambrian lifeforms.

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how post Cambrian do you need to be for this thread?

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>>8797268
Earlier renditions had it upside down so that the spines on its back were the legs.

But did they taste like chicken

>>8797737
They probably tasted like insects or some kind of crustacean.

>>8797712
What he fuck is this bullshit? At some point you just have to fucking draw the line in the sand on what can and cannot be alive today. If that was actual footage and not a computer generated video, then that needs to become extinct. It doesn't even look efficient

>>8798075
Google "seapig"

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You have to stay in the same Olympic pool as this creature for 5 munutes and you get paid $100000, do you do it?

I'll just leave this here. https://mega.nz/#F!h8IywSBT!NJydXzKfTxrusqkQNmEeIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTFdsGlfxs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqtEVZpPTo

It features lots of various critters.

>>8798090
Its probably slow as fuck, so sure.

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>>8798103
Here also is a picture of the MC. Sarotrocercus oblita

>>8797712
These fucking things are the niggers of the deep seas.

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>>8798075
>fucking draw the line in the sand on what can and cannot be alive today

Hitler tried that. Look at where he is today.

>>8798118
Not sure about that, these guys work all day long.

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>>8797712
Good question.

>>8798422
WHAT
THE
FUCK
IS
THAT

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>>8798428
Looks like it has a slug-like foot on the bottom that it glides along the sea floor with. Those big leg-looking things are probably not used for ground mobility though they might be for protection. That big thing that opens looks like it has tiny feeder tentacles that comb the surface for organic debris.

It is probably some form of sea cucumber or similar.

>>8798117
Looks like it's on it's back.

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>>8798085

>>8798422
sea fleshlight

>>8798075
Fuck you, that thing deserves to be alive just as much as you.

>>8798422
what the fuck man
I had no idea about these things

>>8798075
But it dindu nuffin!

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>>8798428
>>8798422
>>8798706
Evidently this was in, "Bali".

>>8798441
>It is probably some form of sea cucumber or similar.

Sea slug, not sea cucumber. No idea why I typed that instead. Specifically, a hooded sea slug variant. I made a longer vid of it.

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>>8798782
Here's a different one where you can see it feeding from underneath.

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>>8798789
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vexCNzLx0Tc

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We have to exterminate the whole Nudibranchia taxon

>>8798085
N-no you

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>>8798621
It is on its back. Supposedly, it swam on its back.

>>8798789
That's terrifying

>>8798842
How would they know?

>>8798706
>Radulla merged with some expanding membrane
>Partial cephalization
That is the weirdest mollusk I have ever seen.

>>8798842
Maybe it just fossilized upside down?

>>8798877
lol

>>8798090
Well how big is it

>>8798090
Well considering it's a giant marine arthropod and I breathe air I'd have a pretty considerable energy advantage.

>>8798075
>>8798085
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4DbZivHCY
(bonus: there's a qt marine biologist holding one of those near the end)

>>8798866
Iunno.

>>8798877
It's not a matter of the way it fossilized. I don't actually know the reason they would assume that though. Seems to be because it appears to have no legs, it's assumed it swam upside down using its gills or whatever those things are on its underside. http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=110&m=2&

>>8798905
Interesting.

>>8798880
~75cm

>>8798936
Jesus. Wouldn't like that, but it's a lot of money so probably yes. Do we know if there's any poison happening there?

>>8798942
He sounds as dangerous as a lobster, i would do it too

I wonder why were these isopod looking shells so popular back then. Or is it just that there were lots of bugs and they got replaced by fish?

>>8800415
They were just all the rage, you had to have them to hang out with the cool kids.

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>>8800452
Early fish are weird too
People often don't realise how incredibly broad of a category 'fish' is

>>8798812
Hold on now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkZHDIujUc

Everything in this thread is fucking disgusting. Why were early animals so fucking gross?

>>8800462
Aren't they 3 phyla?
Like putting mammals, birds, and a large portion of reptiles together.

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>>8796939
Ediacaran lifeforms. Little is known abuot them and there is deate about what phyla most of these represent, or if they can even be grouped into extant phyla.

>>8800462
>those things on the bottom

Literally triops.

Also, could their legs be modified gills?

>>8800507
They all belong to phylum chordata. They may be different orders, though.

>>8798090
Do we have a feel for how salty the oceans were when that bastard was alive? He might be too busy dying in a pool for me to worry about him.

>>8798090
Yes, those spooky looking things are probably closer to nets than actual jaws.

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More things that belong ded.

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>>8801385

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>>8801418
.

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>>8800485
Looks like old people candy.

>>8801434
>>old people candy
is it candy made from old people?

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>>8801425

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>>8801445
And one of the "bashing" variety instead of the "spearing" sort.

>>8801446
Dawww achieved by murderous creepy mantis shrimp.

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>>8801449
Forgot image of mantis shrimp cuteness.

>>8801385
Man this reminds me of sodaconstructor.

10/10 thread.

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>>8801446
Slowed down one zillion squillian times. Muthafuggah sets up a cavitation bubble that produces extra shock and awe.

>>8801446
Life is nightmarish

>>8801446
>>8801451
>>8801464
Aren't these the fuckers with batshit crazy vision as well?