Earth's first great predator wasn't

The metres-long, carnivorous 'shrimp' from hell that once ruled the seas of Earth a half billion years ago may have been a real softy, it turns out. A new 3-D modelling of the mouth parts of the Anomalocaris, along with evidence that these parts were not hard like teeth, but flexible, shows that the famed predator could not have been munching on the hard shells of trilobites and other such creatures of the early seas...

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