Summary: <p>This week let’s find out a little something about the Cambrian explosion, where the relatively simple and tiny life on earth suddenly proliferated and grew much larger…and definitely stranger.</p> <p>The Burgess shale area: beautiful AND full of fascinating fossils:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-634" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/walcott-5-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>Anomalocaris, pre-we-figured-out-what-these-things-are:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-635" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/science_ruined_anomalocaris__by_monster_man_08-dbdgbob-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>What anomalocaris probably actually looked like, plus a couple of the “headless shrimp” fossils:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-636" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/anomalocaris-300x209.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="209"></p> <p>More “headless shrimp” fossils because for some reason I find them hilarious:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-639" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/anamalocaris2-300x199.gif" alt="" width="300" height="199"></p> <p>Marrella. Tiny, weird, looks sort of like those creepy house centipedes that freak me out so much, but with horns:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-637" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/marrella-210x300.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="300"></p> <p>Hallucigenia, long-time mystery fossil:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-638" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hallucigenia-300x215.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="215"></p> <p>What hallucingenia probably looked like, maybe:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-640" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your hos</p>
