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It is "mind-boggling" compared to the size of similar animals at the time. Half a meter might sound short, but I'd say it would be mind-boggling to find a half-
by Hayarotle 5y ago
It is "mind-boggling" compared to the size of similar animals at the time. Half a meter might sound short, but I'd say it would be mind-boggling to find a half-meter long ant, spider or bee in a forest, for example. Not so big compared to all animals that ever existed, but massive compared to similar animals at the time.
- IncRnd 5y agoNo, it was not mind-boggling. Read the first two sentences of the very next paragraph. "Evolutionarily speaking, Titanokorys belongs to a group of primitive arthropods called radiodonts. The most iconic representative of this group is the streamlined predator Anomalocaris, which may itself have approached a metre in length." If the most iconic representative of a group is twice the size of this new discovery, the size of the new discovery is not "mind boggling" or "massive".
- masklinn 5y agoAnd one of the previous members of the order, Aegirocassis, is estimated to have reached two meters.
- dotancohen 5y agoArguably the two most iconic dinosaurs, T. Rex and the Brontosaurus family, are far larger and more aggressive than the rest of the group. Iconic does not imply representative. Though I do agree that this creature wouldn't seem mind-boggling to those only familiar with the period's "iconic" species, in fact this creature would be mind-boggling to the vast majority of creatures alive at the time.