Ancient shrimp monster not so fierce after all
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 06:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cambrian sea creature, Anomalocaris Canadensis, had long been thought to be a fearsome predator of trilobites, equipped as it was with barbed feelers and an armor-plated mouth, but new research suggests it was incapable of eating adult trilobites and probably survived by dining on "mush."