Huha, ein neues Monster. Oder ein uraltes Monster mit neuem Lebensraum? Jedenfalls, eine stachelige Hallucigenia Silvanis, oder so. Sorry, Herr Linné.
https://rorschachhamster.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/neues-monster-fur-old-school-rollenspiele-hallucigenia-silvanis/
#pnpde #Monster #osr #osric #ALRIK #swordsandwizardry #fantasyart #ttrpg #rollenspiele #cambrianexplosion

things have been crazy irl but sometimes you have to confess your undying love to a cambrian arthropod
#paleoart #cambrianexplosion #opabinia #DigitalArt #MastoArt

Turns out there wasn’t a dramatic burst of biodiversity on Earth known as the Cambrian explosion. At least, that’s what Thomas Servais, a French paleontologist, and his colleagues argue in a 2023 paper. The Cambrian explosion is credited for being a period in which many animal groups sprang to life and diversified. Servais says that’s really the result of the biases of scientists. Live Science has more:
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/evolution/did-the-cambrian-explosion-really-happen
#CambrianExplosion #Paleontology #Science

Gizmodo: New Theory Suggests Hardy Tardigrades Evolved From Ancient Worms https://gizmodo.com/new-theory-tardigrades-evolved-ancient-worms-1850610654 #burgessshalefossils #cambrianexplosion #anomalocaridids #psychrophiles #cambroraster #thermophiles #hallucigenia #titanokorys #tardigrade #joemoysiuk #jihoonkihm #xerophiles #lobopodia #cambrian #moss

Mighty #Anomalocaris stirs, spreading dust and terror throughout the #Cambrian sea. #Opabinia, #Hallucigenia, #Pikaia, #Canadia, #Burgessia, #Marella, and #Elrathia can only hope the rocks and ridges they cover behind will hide them.

Inspired by a display at the Naturkunde Museum Stuttgart that perfectly showed off the difference in size between Cambrian critters. At 40 cm, Anomalocaris was a leviathan.

#CambrianExplosion #Paleoart #MyArt #Arthropods

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Ichnology #Ediacaran #CambrianExplosion

GRETCHEN R. O'NEIL, LYDIA S. TACKETT, MICHAEL B. MEYER; THE ROLE OF SURFICIAL BIOTURBATION IN THE LATEST EDIACARAN: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRACE FOSSIL INTENSITY IN THE TERMINAL EDIACARAN–LOWER CAMBRIAN OF CALIFORNIA. PALAIOS 2022;; 37 (12): 703–717. doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.050

"The creatures are so well preserved in the fossils that the soft tissues of their bodies, including the muscles, guts, eyes, gills, mouths and other openings are all still visible. The 4,351 separate fossils excavated so far represent 101 species, 53 of them new.
[...]
Until now, the most impressive fossils from the Cambrian explosion were those found in the Burgess Shale, a 508m-year-old rock formation in Canada, and in the 518m-year-old Chengjiang formation in China. The new fossils, found near the junction of the Danshui and Qingjiang rivers in Hubei province in China, provide a snapshot of a radically different ecosystem of organisms that lived around the same time."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/21/mindblowing-haul-of-fossils-over-500m-years-old-unearthed-in-china

#Fossils #Cambrian #Evolution #CambrianExplosion