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Anyway, they have all sorts of strange new words and ideas - including "anomalocaris" (the world's first "super predator") -- and so, he says to me, he says:
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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I mean, the evidence for species like anomalocaris or opabinia or any of these things is based on hundreds of different specimens.
Sir David Attenborough Tracks Down Earth's 'First Life' 2010
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Although other fully intact fossils of anomalocaris have been found before, this is the first one to reveal the optical design of its eyes.
NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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The researchers report that anomalocaris had extraordinarily complex eyes, with 16,000 hexagonal lenses each.
NYT > Global Home By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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The researchers report that anomalocaris had extraordinarily complex eyes, with 16,000 hexagonal lenses each.
NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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Although other fully intact fossils of anomalocaris have been found before, this is the first one to reveal the optical design of its eyes.
NYT > Global Home By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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The only modern arthropod that may exceed anomalocaris is the dragonfly, which can have up to 28,000 lenses in each eye.
NYT > Global Home By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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The only modern arthropod that may exceed anomalocaris is the dragonfly, which can have up to 28,000 lenses in each eye.
NYT > Home Page By SINDYA N. BHANOO 2011
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While having tremendous respect for all creatures, he apparently gets as much pleasure from explaining and describing a stone-cold anomalocaris fossil as he does when elaborating on the habits, habitation and reproductive methods of a living, breathing animal.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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While having tremendous respect for all creatures, he apparently gets as much pleasure from explaining and describing a stone-cold anomalocaris fossil as he does when elaborating on the habits, habitation and reproductive methods of a living, breathing animal.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
brundlefly commented on the word anomalocaris
I love paleontology names.
December 1, 2006