Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The Cambrian period was so long ago that the land was inhospitable and the oceans looked like they'd been pulled from an alien ecosystem.
Despite such a massive stretch of time passing fossils have survived to today and one of the best known animals from that early period of earth history was a strange looking arthropod.
Today we breakdown the confusing looking first super predator, Anomalocaris.
00:00 Narrative
04:51 Breakdown
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