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The Fossil Halls re-open this Saturday, so I want to highlight some cool invertebrates you'll find in the early life area. First is Waptia, an awesome Cambrian arthropod that's sometimes preserved with its eggs (ecr and ecl below)!

Images: https://t.co/ssnEj4iTl2

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2019-06-04

Reading an awesome acorn worm developmental bio paper. It can be so hard to find a clear drawing of a really specific structure (especially ones lost in ontogeny, like the juvenile post-anal tail); useful for my postdoc on their Cambrian cousins

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2019-05-29

Vetulicola are early deuterostomes from the Cambrian period. They are one of the oldest animals, living 525 million years ago. They were 9cm long & fed on plankton & seafloor debris.

(Credit: )

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2019-05-20

Highlights from the Boreostemma, Xingtianosaurus, Tamisiocaris and Gravitholus.

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2019-04-27

Look. What is more likely.

A) Graboids evolved in the Precambrian era¹ to hunt sessile sponges.
b) Graboids, the most adept tunnelers in history, dug down into deeper fossil layers later.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

1 [Tremors 2: Aftershocks. Dr Kate Riley, et al]

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2019-04-11

Ever wondered how fuxianhuiids performed ecdysis? Check out some new insights on the moulting strategy of the early Cambrian Chengjiangocaris from the Xiaoshiba biota w/ and our colleagues from Yunnan University https://t.co/7F8ddT5LvO

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2019-04-05

Kerygmachela is an early arthropod that lived during the Cambrian period. They had 11 pairs of lateral lobes for swimming.

(Credit: deviantart/Achaeopteryx)

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2019-03-28

I am passionate about Cambrian life because they are all
1) Huggable 2) Kissable 3) Lovable. It is a scientific fact.

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2019-03-05

The people in the Paleontology Shitposting group I created (Paleontology Coproliteposting) took the Cambrian stem-Arthropod Opabinia, which became famous as a meme where it collects "Bepis and Dorit", and turned it into A FUCKING ANIME GIRL

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2019-02-22

Palaeontology Coproliteposting is on a Cambrian kick and it’s honestly the most impressive collective display of memeing I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/DUAS6IWM81

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2019-02-17

Sanctacaris was a marine arthropod from the Middle Cambrian. It grew to almost a metre long.

(Credit: shikhar09)

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2019-01-21

Collinsium ciliosum was a genus of lobopodian from the early Cambrian.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

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2018-10-25

My first drawing since the Cambrian Extinction, or that's what it feels like, anyway

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2018-09-15

A zillion cards folded and packed (slight exaggeration maybe!). Heading to to deliver them, and some new unframed work, including 'New day, Presipe'

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2018-06-02

The Cambrian Symphony: Painting the Music https://t.co/wt1bZ4eY9l

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2018-04-04

On the easel again today. I bet you can guess where this ones going! inspired by the

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2017-09-29

finally finished *splurts out blood and runs away*...
(捡子from 《寒武纪Cambrian Period》chinese drama)

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2017-07-23