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And not gigantic. These headlines are becoming tiresome.

• rsynnott 3y ago
  It's gigantic relative what you'd expect for predators at the time, is the point.
  • gumballindie 3y ago
    Yes, but casual readers such as myself expected a worm the size of a bus. The title was made to mislead people like into clicking. Why it’s called clickbait.
    • rsynnott 3y ago
      Clearly you have been watching too much Dune.
• RuggedPineapple 3y ago
  That's... huge? I don't really see the problem with that. This is from the veryearly Cambrian. The first thing we tentatively assign as an 'animal' (Caveasphaera) came less then 100 million years before it. It comes from the same million year period that featured the first known arthropod (Kylinxia) and absolutely dwarfed that creature. It's 6 times longer. The size difference between this and what else was around seems pretty close to the difference between you and an elephant.
• rvbissell 3y ago
  Right? I was expecting something akin to an ALASKAN BULL WORM (viz. spongebob)