[C19fan]

Tamisiocaris is a cousin of the first apex predator, Anomalocaris. Giant is a relative term as the largest animals were in the 3 feet range at that time.

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[GraceG]

If I get my Tardis working I may avoid going back that far... the animals would truly look scary as heck...

[GipperCT]

[Sawdring]

Haha, the author claims this animal is an early ancestor of the whale. I would like to inspect that family tree.

[BroJoeK]

from the article:

"Lead author Dr Jakob Vinther, a lecturer in macro-evolution at the University of Bristol, said: 'These primitive arthropods were, ecologically speaking, the sharks and whales of the Cambrian era."

There's that term again: "macro-evolution".
I'd like to see it not-used, because it confuses the h*ll out of anti-evolutionists, makes them babble incoherently about frogs turning into birds.

In reality, there's only one evolution -- short-term "micro-evolution" changes, which when accumulated over very long times can lead people to speak of "macro-evolution".
But there was nothing "macro" about it.
It all happened one change at a time -- micro, adaption, with those changes accumulating over many millions of years.

Short-term evolution, long-term evolution: