Post cambrian monsters and WTF creatures

Do we have a fossil of this thing?

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:DDDDD

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

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

Still not as bad as this thing

Why don't we have these creatures anymore?

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?

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

But did they taste like chicken

They probably tasted like insects or some kind of crustacean.

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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

Google "seapig"

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. mega.nz/#F!h8IywSBT!NJydXzKfTxrusqkQNmEeIQ

youtube.com/watch?v=kWTFdsGlfxs
youtube.com/watch?v=IpqtEVZpPTo

It features lots of various critters.

Its probably slow as fuck, so sure.

Here also is a picture of the MC. Sarotrocercus oblita

These fucking things are the niggers of the deep seas.

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

Hitler tried that. Look at where he is today.

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

Good question.

WHAT
THE
FUCK
IS
THAT

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.

Looks like it's on it's back.

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sea fleshlight

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

what the fuck man
I had no idea about these things

But it dindu nuffin!

Evidently this was in, "Bali".

>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.

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

youtube.com/watch?v=vexCNzLx0Tc

We have to exterminate the whole Nudibranchia taxon

N-no you

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

That's terrifying

How would they know?

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

Maybe it just fossilized upside down?

lol

Well how big is it

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

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

Iunno.

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. burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=110&m=2&

Interesting.

~75cm

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?

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?

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

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

Hold on now...

youtube.com/watch?v=7UkZHDIujUc

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

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

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.

>those things on the bottom

Literally triops.

Also, could their legs be modified gills?

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

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.

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

More things that belong ded.

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Looks like old people candy.

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

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

Dawww achieved by murderous creepy mantis shrimp.

Forgot image of mantis shrimp cuteness.

Man this reminds me of sodaconstructor.

10/10 thread.

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

Life is nightmarish

Aren't these the fuckers with batshit crazy vision as well?