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500M-Year-Old 'Alien Fish Taco' Was Among First Creatures with Jaws
- Evidlo 2y agoI had no idea what an "alien fish taco" would look like, but as soon as I saw the image it made sense instantly.
- bpicolo 2y agoLooks like a shrimp
- spengleo 2y agoWonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould is a lovely book about many strange organisms from this same time period. It's wild that these alien creatures were just wandering around living out their lives for millions and millions of years before we or most forms of life we would really recognize came on the scene.
- Jerrrry 2y agoHis other book regarding evolution's meandering, not predisposition, to complexity... the disappearance of the 4.0 batting average, and evolution of horses is great too.
- voidfunc 2y agoI wonder what it would have tasted like...
- exe34 2y agotastes like chicken
- fuzzfactor 2y agoThey were seving them as lobsters back then and nobody knew the difference ;) I imagine they would turn orange if you boiled 'em.