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Anomalocaris canadensis

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Anomalocaris canadensis was a giant arthropod that lived 505 million years ago during Cambrian period. This animal is considered to be an apex predator of the Burgess Shale marine ecosystem discovered in Western Canada in the beginning of the XX century. Anomalocaris was up to 1.8 m (6 ft) long.

According to the latest discovery and unlike the vast majority of conventional reconstructions of this animal, Anomalocaris might have had two rows of flaps that run along its back in addition to the larger flaps on its sides. The lower large flaps were homologous to walking limbs and the upper smaller flaps had the gills for breathing.
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It looks really mrenacing!