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Here's my 2019 painting of a new species of polychaete (bristle worm) from the early Cambrian Canglangpu formation (China), called Dannychaeta tucolus. This was commissioned for Chen et al 2020.

tribute to anomalocaris

... except for the Cretaceous. The Cretaceous had a Last Day and it was probably in April, and then the next day it was the Paleogene.

One beast down

Not a Perspectives post, still working on the next one of those. Anomalocaris also isn't exactly the great grandpappy of all arthropods, but...close enough lol

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's Anomalocaris, which you might have seen in books and online credited to someone else – but it's one of mine!

Why do we keep rendering Tully Monster with a bent nose?

(psps. if you like these funny guys check out the little anomalocaris tag .. there are more)

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