When Giant 'Shrimps' Ruled the Earth

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  • @D05D
    @D05D 5 років тому +2375

    Shrimps now: I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I give the word

    • @specturv9836
      @specturv9836 4 роки тому +161

      I now you rule our plates

    • @MAAH1776
      @MAAH1776 4 роки тому +119

      Now every night I go on a plate, then the people ate

    • @thepoetryofaugust
      @thepoetryofaugust 4 роки тому +83

      They once were terrified when they saw my size

    • @thepoetryofaugust
      @thepoetryofaugust 4 роки тому +72

      My species would eat away,
      For the food that I gave away, that's what they would say

    • @thepoetryofaugust
      @thepoetryofaugust 4 роки тому +60

      A few million years we had it all but then are species began to fall

  • @LC-wh5dd
    @LC-wh5dd 4 роки тому +456

    Rest In Peace Anomalocaris, I cried for you when I watched your tribute video

  • @kenzilla1237
    @kenzilla1237 6 років тому +2563

    Looks like the early stages of spore

    • @blazeelvirafirehoof7844
      @blazeelvirafirehoof7844 5 років тому +139

      they should make a new Spore where you can make theese things.

    • @VossMarionette
      @VossMarionette 5 років тому +186

      That 10 year old game is overdue for a spiritual successor!

    • @artonline01
      @artonline01 5 років тому +17

      Looks like the early stages of learning to use English.

    • @crispychknwings9829
      @crispychknwings9829 5 років тому

      Basically

    • @expression3639
      @expression3639 5 років тому +7

      I clicked on this video from the side bar to come and make exactly this comment.

  • @FPrimusUnicron
    @FPrimusUnicron 4 роки тому +339

    So nobody though it was weird when they found "2" weird shrimps side by side in a very exact placement more than once?

    • @KOTEBANAROT
      @KOTEBANAROT 4 роки тому +107

      they just chillin bro

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 3 роки тому +95

      @@KOTEBANAROT
      2 shrimps just chilling in the ocean.... side by side.... next to each other....

    • @camreyes1819
      @camreyes1819 3 роки тому +65

      homies

    • @ThomasBomb45
      @ThomasBomb45 3 роки тому +82

      They were monogamous shrimps. Mate for life and never leave their partners side
      (This has no scientific basis I just made it up)

    • @liltimothy8109
      @liltimothy8109 3 роки тому +33

      @@ThomasBomb45 that’s wholesome as fuck

  • @purpleemerald5299
    @purpleemerald5299 6 років тому +1749

    Fear the moustache mouth of death. Fear the adorable shrimp monster! FEAR IT!

    • @clemsarts
      @clemsarts 5 років тому +43

      ..not the sphincter mouth that can cut through ceramic?

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 5 років тому +36

      Hey, a hole is a hole.

    • @Ez-ij7pe
      @Ez-ij7pe 5 років тому +12

      He ate me :(

    • @milesarcher8502
      @milesarcher8502 5 років тому +12

      OH, YEAH?? Gimme a gallon or two of melted butter, and we'll see who's in FEAR!!

    • @BuzzKirill3D
      @BuzzKirill3D 5 років тому +1

      Adorable? That thing is terrifying.

  • @theoheinrich529
    @theoheinrich529 4 роки тому +591

    Came here from the tribute.

  • @DarthCuddlefluff
    @DarthCuddlefluff 6 років тому +1313

    There is nothing scarier to me than anomalocaris. I sometimes have nightmares of being in the Cambrian oceans and being eaten alive by these things.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +257

      Haha, it certainly would be pretty terrifying to come face to face with one of these in the murky depths of the ocean...

    • @timbos7592
      @timbos7592 6 років тому +44

      Ben G Thomas Somewhat remind me of the Slipper Lobster, met one of those for the first time when I did my diver's test for sub 30 meter diving. Really love them! (Wikipedia link for the curious!: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipper_lobster)

    • @VOMITQUEEN
      @VOMITQUEEN 6 років тому +12

      Darth Cuddlefluff just be thankful that they're no longer around...

    • @Valdagast
      @Valdagast 5 років тому +29

      Looks like something that Lovecraft would think up.

    • @vanillajack5925
      @vanillajack5925 5 років тому +28

      Did you dream you were a trilobite?

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr 5 років тому +74

    "Only" one meter long? If that thing was swimming towards me, I would *SHRIEK*!!!

    • @usagi2934
      @usagi2934 4 роки тому +4

      I'm a grown man but I'd probably cry

  • @koolnomi95
    @koolnomi95 6 років тому +429

    The Cambrian is full of such weird creatures they could probably make up a top 10 list of "Weirdest Creatures to Have Ever Lived"

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +51

      Haha, true

    • @mysharkyproductions3274
      @mysharkyproductions3274 6 років тому +22

      look up a top 10 list of weird extinct creatures, you are pretty much right

    • @neovxr
      @neovxr 6 років тому +6

      but most are actually precambric i.e. ediacara

    • @acropolismauve8496
      @acropolismauve8496 6 років тому +2

      Namacub95 no more top 10 lists PLEASE!

    • @purpleemerald5299
      @purpleemerald5299 5 років тому +4

      BlueDiamond Especially because all fiction is INSPIRED by reality in some way or another. You can't come up with fiction out of nothing. But reality on the other hand, can be literally anything regardless of what we know or understand.

  • @legionbeast
    @legionbeast 4 роки тому +27

    The program "Planet of life" documented the Trilobite feeding more clearly. People in Japan made a full scale model of one with an operational mouth. This mouth was then "fed" trilobite models, biting them at various angles. The results were numerous trilobites that had W shaped chunks taken out of them, suggesting it would manipulate the trilobites around and bite into them at different angles, though that it was possible that some managed to wriggle free after the first bite and die elsewhere.

  • @Tricosis.
    @Tricosis. 6 років тому +145

    Such an underrated channel. Very informative. No seconds feel wasted! You're doing a fantastic job, keep it up!

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +10

      Thank you, I'm very glad you feel that way! :D

  • @alicyjinx8923
    @alicyjinx8923 5 років тому +856

    Wonder if they taste good with cocktail sauce or butter

    • @rickautry2759
      @rickautry2759 5 років тому +84

      Let it sit split open in the fridge overnight to take away that hydrogen sulfide 'farts on an elevator' funk, then tease the meat out of the shell, fry it in butter with a bit of garlic, served in it's split shell with a choice of Hoisin sauce or Benihana Teriyaki. Hey, I've got the traps, there's just the problem of not having a rope long enough to reach!

    • @DrMackSplackem
      @DrMackSplackem 5 років тому +32

      You could make a pretty mean Pad Thai.

    • @angrychipmunkonfire3
      @angrychipmunkonfire3 5 років тому +18

      On a bed of angel hair pasta

    • @Vasharan
      @Vasharan 5 років тому +7

      On their home planet, they enjoy eating a tasty you!

    • @Kenshi_2900
      @Kenshi_2900 5 років тому +9

      If you have tasted an insect or arachnid, Anomalocaris Would Taste like it........With A bit of Salt

  • @1337fraggzb00N
    @1337fraggzb00N 4 роки тому +358

    Back then: monster
    Today: salad

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 4 роки тому +4

      Let's be real, we still cringe & freak out at tiny spiders. Almost anybody coming across that 4 foot waterbeast swimming today, would still scream "monster"

  • @sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635
    @sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635 3 роки тому +27

    0:05 Oh look
    It's the Attack on Titan worm

  • @evodolka
    @evodolka 6 років тому +329

    these are 1 of my favorite Cambrian sea creatures, i discovered them through the Pokemon Anorith who is based off of them

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +57

      That's really cool, I didn't even realise there was a Pokemon based on them!

    • @evodolka
      @evodolka 6 років тому +41

      yeah it was a fossil Pokemon introduced in Gen 3 that was a Bug type

    • @professoroak3411
      @professoroak3411 6 років тому +11

      True

    • @rubberraptor6450
      @rubberraptor6450 6 років тому +13

      evodolka Let’s not forget that if fed on our ancestors

    • @worfoz
      @worfoz 6 років тому +13

      ..when I realize the new generation of scientists are inspired by Pokemon, I´ll know I am too old for this world...

  • @WobblesandBean
    @WobblesandBean 5 років тому +51

    These dudes are one of my favorite animals. The story of how they were discovered is just so fascinating, they were so immensely advanced beyond anything else in their day, and they're also just plain cool-looking. Even adorably so!

  • @HUNTERSDREAM
    @HUNTERSDREAM 6 років тому +333

    Meanwhile in Monster Hunter World Coral Highlands...

    • @reneemujica142
      @reneemujica142 4 роки тому +3

      OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THE SAME THING

    • @dirandrous7682
      @dirandrous7682 4 роки тому

      Lol

    • @sirfijoe450
      @sirfijoe450 4 роки тому

      What’s that a reference to. I don’t play monster hunter world

    • @HUNTERSDREAM
      @HUNTERSDREAM 4 роки тому +6

      @@sirfijoe450 The Grandfather Mantagrell Endemic Life.

    • @sirfijoe450
      @sirfijoe450 4 роки тому

      Marco Hazard
      Oh, thank you. I wanted to see what it looked like.

  • @spiicypotato
    @spiicypotato 4 роки тому +632

    May Anomalocaris rest in peace. I cry every time I'm reminded of his passing. He may have been a predator but GODDAMNIT HE STUCK TO HIS MORALS ALL THE WAY THROUGH. He was a good man who did what he had to do to survive. To some, they may view Anomalocaris as simply an atrocious predator of the seas. But in lieu, I will remember him for so much more. I will remember him for his fun ways at parties. I will remember him for how he came to help us when we were at our lowest. I will remember him for when he united us in division through words alone.
    I WILL REMEMBER! THE WAYYY ANOMALOCARIS REJECTED THE DARK FORCES OF EVIL IN THE WORLD!
    *I WILL REMEMBER!* THE WAY IN WHICH ANOMALOCARIS STOOD UP AGAINST THE WAYS OF RECKLESSNESS AND SAID *NAY!*
    I will remember the way Anomalocaris told us, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
    How will you remember Anomalocaris?

  • @joshuafogg6600
    @joshuafogg6600 5 років тому +237

    Anomolocsrids: *_*in haughty British accents*_* We are _prawns,_ and don't you forget it!"

    • @joshuafogg6600
      @joshuafogg6600 4 роки тому +4

      @Troll King The Scots and especially the Welsh would vehemently disagree with you on that.

    • @squishh7805
      @squishh7805 4 роки тому

      Tom's Ghost
      This exchange is so funny to me for some reason

    • @SenorTucano
      @SenorTucano 4 роки тому +1

      All hail the prawn lords!

    • @lukeskywalker9016
      @lukeskywalker9016 3 роки тому +1

      Bri'ish*

  • @zekeiwa5837
    @zekeiwa5837 3 роки тому +36

    why did he do it, bros?

  • @ironmark8975
    @ironmark8975 6 років тому +105

    Excellent research work. One can really appreciate the extra steps you made on making this video, the history behind the various fossil discoveries, the speculative evolutionary adaptations people made about it's genus. So well done!

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +6

      Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed :)

  • @elpatron8661
    @elpatron8661 3 роки тому +36

    Attack on Titan Chapter 137 brought me here.

  • @maxgreece1
    @maxgreece1 6 років тому +122

    Fascinating as ever. I had no idea of the number of species nor the longevity of the basic design. I wonder if any of them were mud crawlers sieving through the sand to scare hiding creatures up that they could then grab and eat? A couple of their designs looked suitable for that kind of lifestyle.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +23

      That could be very possible, perhaps that's what Hurdia was using its carapace for?

    • @IC1101-Capinatator
      @IC1101-Capinatator Рік тому

      Probably most hurdiids were either like that or benthic predators grabbing smaller prey. And then there’s the filter-feeding Aegirocassis, which is just weird.

  • @juliankirby9880
    @juliankirby9880 5 років тому +23

    A fossil arthropod eye was found in the Cambrian rocks, it has more lenses than the most complex arthropod eye today. Was listening to a lecture on UA-cam and heard about it

  • @Twiggyay
    @Twiggyay 6 років тому +70

    "it's the Cambrian explosion~"

  • @jaegerzero9252
    @jaegerzero9252 3 роки тому +24

    Eldians, we here?

  • @Pinkification
    @Pinkification 4 роки тому +74

    Came from a tribute video dedicated to these homies

  • @celebrei
    @celebrei 3 роки тому +112

    It just keeps moving forward until all its enemies are destroyed

    • @Rini2g
      @Rini2g 3 роки тому +2

      True lmao

    • @VictorIV0310
      @VictorIV0310 3 роки тому +2

      Wrong animal, Einstein

    • @Monarchist_greek42891
      @Monarchist_greek42891 3 роки тому +3

      stfu this video isn't for aot, its for normal people

    • @exrafrxst
      @exrafrxst 3 роки тому

      Falco grice the Flying titan Yet your name is falco🤦‍♂️

    • @Monarchist_greek42891
      @Monarchist_greek42891 3 роки тому +1

      @@exrafrxst okay? Doesn't mean im falco, falco doesn't even exist

  • @minmimimi2810
    @minmimimi2810 3 роки тому +125

    After reading chaper 137 of AOT this pop in my recommendations lmao,
    And also the video about hallucigenia..

    • @aliestereroan
      @aliestereroan 3 роки тому +3

      same thing

    • @Monarchist_greek42891
      @Monarchist_greek42891 3 роки тому +2

      get out of here, this isn't aot this is for normal people, *NEVER SPOIL PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED AOT*

    • @ddazxi
      @ddazxi 3 роки тому

      I was waiting for an aot comment

    • @ddazxi
      @ddazxi 3 роки тому +3

      @@Monarchist_greek42891 it isn't even a spoiler if you don't know what it is

  • @jatinagrawal1586
    @jatinagrawal1586 4 роки тому +72

    Am I the only one who read "when giant simps ruled the Earth"

  • @sak4933
    @sak4933 5 років тому +76

    I first saw Anomalocaris in Walking with Monsters years ago, but I never remembered it's name. It's really cool to get more details on how it lived and was discovered now!
    On a somewhat related note, I'm shocked that I never saw the similarities between Anomalocaris and Anorith before. How did I not see that?

    • @timnordstrom7383
      @timnordstrom7383 Рік тому +2

      @•アノマロカリス• (Anomalocaris) holy shit

    • @angryerika
      @angryerika Рік тому

      @@timnordstrom7383 it's really him 🤯🤯

  • @limitlessvoid.7457
    @limitlessvoid.7457 3 роки тому +12

    SHINZOU WO SASAGEYOOOOOO!!!

  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 6 років тому +59

    Stephen J. Gould introduced me long ago to these creatures and many others with his book "Wonderful Life" about precambrian fossil beds at Burgess Shales in British Columbia, Canada. You, however, have just provided me with almost every bit of information I possess concerning the anomolocaris beyond it's name and a rough idea of it's appearance. This is not a commonly seen topic and I am very pleased to have run across it. Thanks very much.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +11

      No problem, thanks so much for watching! Wonderful Life was a big inspiration for me, and I'm planning to do a video soon about the Burgess Shale itself and Gould's ideas that he wrote about in the book :)

  • @jalisaalanaye1662
    @jalisaalanaye1662 4 роки тому +15

    Absolutely amazing all these creatures existed. It’s so interesting to think about all the sea creatures we’ve yet to discover because there so far down and deep into the ocean.

  • @paulbags123
    @paulbags123 6 років тому +81

    Amazing video. These animals don’t seem so strange if you’ve ever gone fishing and accidentally caught a lobster you’ll know what I mean. you can almost imagine them swimming around the ocean today.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +17

      Thanks :) And that would certainly be quite something if you were to suddenly catch an anomalocarid haha :D

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 6 років тому +1

      Arthur White- yes, Isopods are ultracool.

    • @BookWyrmOnAString
      @BookWyrmOnAString 3 роки тому +3

      I wish they were

  • @dogancanozgokceler3234
    @dogancanozgokceler3234 4 роки тому +8

    These animals were very beautiful and interesting. Forget about Jurassic Park. I want to see Cambriyen Aquarium...

  • @rotodexthepaleontologist2267
    @rotodexthepaleontologist2267 6 років тому +130

    Damn. Shrimp is my favorite food. Wonder how one of these suckers would have tasted!

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +25

      Quite tasty I imagine :D

    • @HyperionaSilverleaf
      @HyperionaSilverleaf 5 років тому +24

      Mmmmm. Anomalocaris fettuccine alfredo.

    • @andt1994
      @andt1994 5 років тому +4

      Same here lol very filling I assume

  • @kalliopixnk3507
    @kalliopixnk3507 3 роки тому +8

    oh come on why is all of the first panel of chapter 137 in my recommended?

  • @silkworm6861
    @silkworm6861 6 років тому +55

    Thanks for the video! It's quite amazing that one of these guys popped up in the Devonian; just imagine what hasn't been discovered yet.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +10

      No problem, thanks for watching :) And yes I hadn't realised that there was a species known from that time, it's incredible that the group lasted so much longer than we originally thought.

    • @johndifrancisco3642
      @johndifrancisco3642 6 років тому +1

      Silkworm, I like your imagination :)

    • @BartJBols
      @BartJBols 6 років тому +3

      +90% of all species that ever lived on earth did not leave fossils, most of them we will never know. This biasses more towards large creatures since their chances as a species to leave preserved fossils are lower due to less individuals and lower total biomass.

    • @johndifrancisco3642
      @johndifrancisco3642 6 років тому +1

      Who you call'n a biass?
      =P

    • @IC1101-Capinatator
      @IC1101-Capinatator Рік тому

      First we thought that all the Cambrian weirdos died out in the Ordovician extinction, then *_bam, Hunsrück Slate!_*

  • @Mantheman23
    @Mantheman23 3 роки тому +6

    UA-cam knew what it was doing when it recommended me this after watching all tomorrow’s.

  • @elchubacabra2840
    @elchubacabra2840 5 років тому +101

    To find aliens don't look in the sky
    Look in the water

    • @viorp5267
      @viorp5267 4 роки тому +10

      (an a few dozen million years back)

    • @excesssivelyboot6495
      @excesssivelyboot6495 4 роки тому +1

      Viorp try 400 million years ago, these were the first predators to ever exist on our planet

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 4 роки тому +1

      For real, all the sci-fi i've ever watched and wanted to write started flashing before my eyes

    • @Loloooo765
      @Loloooo765 3 роки тому +2

      Bro it just my reflection...

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 5 років тому +21

    These things must have looked so mesmerizing swimming through the water

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 4 роки тому +3

      yeah, graceful probably with rippling wavy motion. just like we like seeing rays swim

    • @camreyes1819
      @camreyes1819 3 роки тому

      you're right, it would have been amazing

  • @Alpharius93
    @Alpharius93 6 років тому +22

    That was amazing. I've certainly learned a lot! Now I want an anomolacaris plushie =3

  • @runeanonymous9760
    @runeanonymous9760 5 років тому +17

    I remember watching Walking With Monsters when I was younger and being entranced by these things

    • @TheDiloEmpire
      @TheDiloEmpire 3 роки тому

      Anomalacaris earth's first super predator

  • @Kirill-rc5ng
    @Kirill-rc5ng 3 роки тому +10

    0:05 why do i hear sasageyo playing

  • @bevoburn
    @bevoburn 5 років тому +21

    All i can think is how good those would be steamed with garlic butter.

  • @Martial-Mat
    @Martial-Mat 5 років тому +9

    You found some great graphics to illustrate this. Can you imagine how incredible it would be to go scuba diving in a shallow ocean full of these things?

  • @angganugraha8959
    @angganugraha8959 3 роки тому +12

    i came here after read AOT chapter 137

  • @fear2963
    @fear2963 4 роки тому +5

    Lmao what if all the cambrian animals were actually parts of one big ass animal

  • @Mark16v15
    @Mark16v15 5 років тому +18

    You mentioned in passing the "common ancestor" of the anomalocarid and the trilobite. Maybe you could do a feature on that animal, or speculate on why we haven't found it yet in the fossil record.

    • @RokuroCarisu
      @RokuroCarisu 3 роки тому +2

      The closest to it is probably _Kiisortoqia,_ a mecheiran arthropod that shares a few similarities with anomalocarids. The megacheirans are ancestors to the arachnomorphs, which include trilobites along with horseshoe crabs, eurypterids and arachnids.

    • @randomcomment6068
      @randomcomment6068 Рік тому

      Could be made In an alien lab for all we know...

    • @IC1101-Capinatator
      @IC1101-Capinatator Рік тому

      ⁠@@RokuroCarisu Actually we have *no idea* whether _Kiisortoqia_ was a megacheiran, a weird radiodont, an artiopod/early arthropod that happned to converge on the radiodont appendages or something else entirely! Also, radiodonts pretty much _are_ the common ancestors of trilobites, or at least a branch off from whatever that was.
      (Edit: the radiodont possibility got squashed due to the exoskeleton)

    • @RokuroCarisu
      @RokuroCarisu Рік тому

      @@IC1101-Capinatator It's exoskeleton points towards it being a true arthropod rather than a radiodont.

  • @Yo-Tech
    @Yo-Tech 3 роки тому +7

    I watched one AOT video and because you flashed a picture of a Hallucigenia 4 seconds in I got recommended this video 😂

  • @kristynakozelkova5358
    @kristynakozelkova5358 4 роки тому +18

    Who is here after the random tribute video with Evanescence? :D

  • @arthurobrien7424
    @arthurobrien7424 6 років тому +23

    What a cool channel. UA-cam recommendations are useful sometimes.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +2

      Haha, thanks so much :)

    • @nekozombie
      @nekozombie 3 роки тому

      @@mothlightmedia1936 huh:3

  • @ulyssesasteroid757
    @ulyssesasteroid757 3 роки тому +12

    I KNEEL, ANOMALOCARIS-SAMA

  • @Viatoreptil
    @Viatoreptil 6 років тому +4

    Thank you so much for this video! The research of this group is fun to keep tabs on. And I had no clue about the discovery of Schinderhannes revealing that they survived the Cambrian. That is awesome!

  • @e.a.hallucigenia1128
    @e.a.hallucigenia1128 3 роки тому +5

    Thanks! Well done. Do you have a video on Hallucigenia?

  • @FlakeybrutYT
    @FlakeybrutYT 4 роки тому +4

    A tribute to anomalocaris

  • @jaibhimadevi5805
    @jaibhimadevi5805 5 років тому +6

    I can't help but imagine those frontal appendages being held in an extended position while Anomalocaris is hunting, body staying relatively still in relation to prey until ideal striking position-
    the appendages then whipping around the prey in an instant, drawing it to the mouth for an initial crippling bite, then holding it ( or picking it back up) and manipulating it to eat at leisure.
    I see it as a cruise/acquire/ambush predator.

  • @GodOfConquering
    @GodOfConquering 3 роки тому +10

    Here After Attack On Titan

  • @Ebstract12
    @Ebstract12 5 років тому +118

    I bet they were delicious

    • @Ernest_XX
      @Ernest_XX 5 років тому +7

      I can confirm

    • @Amelia_animations
      @Amelia_animations 4 роки тому

      Yup

    • @KiraCrimsonXX
      @KiraCrimsonXX 4 роки тому +3

      @hairy otter me seeing this comment while laying with my cat

    • @diggernick901
      @diggernick901 4 роки тому +3

      @hairy otter there are certain animals that consume food which makes their meat from disgusting to straight up poisonous. In some cases, it is a purposeful defence mechanism.

    • @ronnieronson4390
      @ronnieronson4390 4 роки тому

      I bet they weren’t lol

  • @TTKMKaizen
    @TTKMKaizen 6 років тому +130

    Would this be the real world inspiration for the generation 3 claw fossil Pokémon, Anorith?

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +49

      Apparently it is, yes

    • @mdr1696
      @mdr1696 5 років тому +39

      -Kabuto/Kabutops: Trilobite
      -Aerodactyl: Pterosaurs
      -Omanyte/Omastar: Prehistoric squid or Nautilus
      -Relicanth: Coelacanth
      -Anorith/Armaldo: Prehistoric shrimp
      -Lileep/Cradily: prehistoric barnacles or sea fauna
      -Cranidos/Rampardos: Pachycephalosaurus
      -Shieldon/Bastiodon: Triceratops
      -Archen/Archeops: Archaeopteryx
      -Tirtouga/Carracosta: Prototurtle
      -Genesect: Mesozoic era insects
      -Tyrunt/Tyrantrum: T-rex or Yutyrannus
      -Amuara/Aurorus: Amargasaurus

    • @ansh6370
      @ansh6370 5 років тому +17

      @@mdr1696
      Omastar is based on ammonites, anorith/armaldo are based on anomalocaris and I think tirtouga/carracosta are based on archelon.

    • @dibdap2373
      @dibdap2373 5 років тому +6

      @@mdr1696 dont forget tyranitar which is godzilla.

    • @T_E_G
      @T_E_G 4 роки тому +4

      @@dibdap2373 might aswell Valcrona/Mothra, Gidorah/Hydreigon, and Rodan/Areodactly

  • @John.0z
    @John.0z 4 роки тому +6

    I was amazed by the Burgess Shales find when it became widely known, not being a paleontologist. Thank you for this vastly enhanced and updated presentation on this fascinating creature.
    Has the Halucogenia family and life cycle been similarly expanded in that intervening time?

  • @Grand_History
    @Grand_History 6 років тому +26

    Very good video, and some awesome research was done for it. I have to favorite this one

  • @WhoElseButZane
    @WhoElseButZane 5 років тому +5

    I just wish I had a book with every animal that ever existed in it and an eternity to look through it all.

  • @bojakthecat
    @bojakthecat 6 років тому +8

    Great video Ben, I love the weird and wonderful animals that came after the Cambrian explosion

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +3

      Thanks, me too :) There's something about the animals from that era that fascinates me, I'll probably be making more videos on them at some point!

    • @bojakthecat
      @bojakthecat 6 років тому

      Ben G Thomas nice one, will look forward to watching those

  • @splayd100
    @splayd100 3 роки тому +5

    I read chapter 137.. I don't know how you knew youtube.. i don't.

  • @BFDT-4
    @BFDT-4 6 років тому +12

    Best presentation I have ever seen on this group of animals. Not only on the anomalocaris, but also on the entire relationship between this animal and the rest of arthropoid type creatures.
    I certainly just learned well.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +1

      Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it :)

    • @BFDT-4
      @BFDT-4 6 років тому

      Ben G Thomas - well deserved!

  • @davidabonyi4556
    @davidabonyi4556 5 років тому +2

    I just found you channel and OHHH MYYYYY, thank you for doing this! Anomalocaris is my all time favourite animal and I thank you for providing many new details on it.

  • @dann2513
    @dann2513 6 років тому +5

    Very well done. Your channel deserves more subs/views. Definitely underrated. Keep the videos coming, please.

  • @mrykv2258
    @mrykv2258 3 роки тому +17

    I can now see where isayama got his references

  • @Tom-mt4lu
    @Tom-mt4lu 6 років тому +20

    Cool video! I love these animals that looked completely alien. Could you do a video about the evolution of dinos to birds?

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  6 років тому +6

      Thanks! And yes that's something I've actually been thinking about doing recently, there's a lot to say about that period of evolution and it's really fascinating.

    • @Tom-mt4lu
      @Tom-mt4lu 6 років тому +1

      cool, i look forward to it :D

  • @REIN900
    @REIN900 5 років тому +6

    Omg the Cambrian period was an actual living nightmare

  • @PsychoIncarnate666
    @PsychoIncarnate666 6 років тому +6

    I still think if it were alive today, it's still pretty friggin' big. That's a shrimp nearly 3 feet.

  • @gaylereid8264
    @gaylereid8264 Рік тому

    I can’t even think as quickly as you speak, Ben. To pronounce allll
    the tongue twisters you do w/out skipping a beat
    makes me envious!!!
    I also regret not becoming a paleotologist b/c of my enduring curiosity for this subject & you are in the most exciting of times right now in your field !!! You are Awesome ( which should mean inspiring & does for me) !!!

  • @wmbnil240
    @wmbnil240 3 роки тому +9

    Attack on titan brought me here

  • @650nelson
    @650nelson 3 роки тому +2

    Go into your local pet store an ask if they have any of these. Describe in fifty words or less the reaction you get, win a trip back into time when the fishing was good! I got nothing else

  • @Loloooo765
    @Loloooo765 3 роки тому +28

    Who is here beacause he/she watch attack on titans so it get recommended ?😂

    • @hightiergamer5558
      @hightiergamer5558 3 роки тому +3

      oh my gosh at elast i only found one aot comment in here you guys are wildin

  • @wiwaxiasilver827
    @wiwaxiasilver827 3 роки тому +3

    As a Wiwaxia I’m terrified of this *absolute unit* ...

  • @robertfletcher3421
    @robertfletcher3421 6 років тому +6

    Ben you have again uploaded a really great and interesting video. When I look at my pet Neocaridina davidi (Red cherry shrimp) I shall give them the respect of such an ancestry.

  • @MrKarnator
    @MrKarnator 5 років тому +7

    Man, imagine if someone being able to make a Time-window (No not a time-machine, but a window that lets you view the past rather than travel through it) and people seeing the actual creature move, hunt, and everything, a strange sight it would be. And what a bizarre creature this is.
    Extremely unlikely i know, but it's interesting and fun to think about. But man it would have been rather unsettling if that creature was somehow alive today, you walking on the sandy floor of some beach and you see this thing heading towards your feet.

  • @343TNT
    @343TNT 6 років тому +8

    i like the part when u said they don't need big brains
    i love your video man ... keep it up

  • @amaanhk
    @amaanhk 3 роки тому +4

    Attack on Titan Spoilers:
    Here after this shrimp lost to wormy boy now called Life.

  • @raphaello5898
    @raphaello5898 6 років тому +11

    your videos are good, keep going.

  • @Juscz
    @Juscz 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent, informative prehistoric life video that covers a good deal of introductory information on these amazing, extinct Arthropod relatives. Thanks for sharing!

  • @aduvya
    @aduvya 3 роки тому +6

    Eren Yeager

  • @ioanam7967
    @ioanam7967 3 роки тому +6

    Tatakae

  • @aleksandarpetrovic7471
    @aleksandarpetrovic7471 3 роки тому +6

    Aot chapter 137..

  • @anomalocarislover7254
    @anomalocarislover7254 3 роки тому +2

    The Cambrian is one of my favorite eras. So alien and strange to imagine these things were our ancestors.

  • @nakenmil
    @nakenmil 6 років тому +4

    Yay! Mentions of Kosemen! He makes such great evolutionary art. :D

  • @gurt422
    @gurt422 3 роки тому +2

    Honestly the shrimp on the thumbnail looks like the Qu from all tomorrows and yet the Qu once ruled mars and I think earth to

  • @paul6925
    @paul6925 4 роки тому +3

    At first I was like “oh it’s just a weird shrimp” and then they showed it’s large enough to grab your head and chew your face off!

  • @DanVR001
    @DanVR001 3 роки тому

    I really like when this channel pops up in my suggested videos. UA-cam recommendations have been really bad for too long.

  • @PP-kx9ec
    @PP-kx9ec 3 роки тому +6

    Looking for attack on titan comments

  • @bidnetwork.828
    @bidnetwork.828 3 роки тому +17

    Now world first life is aot references

  • @MrJonnyPepper
    @MrJonnyPepper 5 років тому +5

    Reminds me of the three blind men and the elephant 🤣

  • @JRose-zn7iw
    @JRose-zn7iw Рік тому

    Shrimp cocktail..shrimp flambe'...shrimp toast...shrimp scampi...popcorn shrimp...shrimp salad...BBQ shrimp...MMMM, I wish they were still here.

  • @rockingsushi8013
    @rockingsushi8013 3 роки тому +3

    Turns out aliens already arrived on earth

  • @johnnikollaj496
    @johnnikollaj496 3 роки тому +1

    Ha...Not if I was alive then. If I was armed with a scampi sauce, melted butter and lemon it would be an absolute extinction level event.

  • @yashuya2022
    @yashuya2022 5 років тому +8

    Go anorith, I choose you!!!

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne Рік тому

    A meter-long animal with giant eyestalks and grasping appendages covered in spikes - yeah, I think terrifying is a good word for them. What is mysterious about them is how such an advanced animal suddenly appeared among all the other primative forms alive at the time. It didn't just pop into existence so there must be older versions that evolved incredibly quickly.