And it probably took millions of years for its prey to develop countermeasures. Generations of Anomalocaris probably had nothing to fear other than competition from their kin…
@@chr0min0id Then why do you imagine this alleged first predator species came about relatively instantly? Generally, we are likely still struggling with the remnants of traumas from that long ago. Inherited fear. Survival stress perpetuating. We are so far away from a next relevant evolutionary step where the norm becomes transcendence of competitive survival fears.
@@Dowlphin Instincts are one thing, natural genetic legacies, but traumas and fears are another. Personal, individual, reactive emotion; still governed [largely] by the subconscious, but the origin or catalyst differs in its tense as well as its impact. There's been Some speculation that the idea of "Dragons" was imagined (among other possible reasons) as a result of ingrained instinctive "fears" toward multiple different kinds of predatory animals culminating together; large feline species (lions & tigers, through claws & teeth), large reptilian species (snakes, komodos, & crocodilians; for more teeth, venom/poison, fangs, and scales), and giant birds of prey (wings for flight with large sharp talons). There is certainly some merit to that idea, for sure, but it's quite debatable whether that ought to really be called a true 'fear' opposed to just an instinct. And this subject frequently suffers for it, as a lot of relative quackery can often run amuck over it. Not saying that you personally fall into that category though. However, that subject of emotion vs instinct in regards to genetics often accompanies the false notion of Literal genetic "memories", and also that idea of "transcendence of competition for survival" sounds awfully idealistic if not Fantasy (after all, competitive & selective Pressures are the primary driver of Evolutionary development, so you were Basically implying that the "next relevant evolutionary step" would be the END of Evolution... and we have no justifiable reason to think or believe that there would ever Be any sort of 'end' to it; save for the Extinction of ALL Life [through annihilation and/or some magical assimilation into a single universal species, but even in that latter case that still wouldn't stop the Environment itself from possibly Changing & thus Environmental-Pressures changing right along with it]).
“Look son, kids these days think sharks are so scary but lemme tell you, back in my day fish didn’t even have jaws. What you had to worry about back then were giant sea scorpions or giant nautiloids”
I feel yah. Documentaries nowadays always play that dramatic music as if every scene was a big battle scene in a war film. Maybe it grasps at the attention of people, but it gets tiresome. Producers need to think on the long run.
i’ll never forget you, anomalocaris. You’re truly a one of a kind, a natural, a true legend. can’t believe it has been 500 millions years since you’ve been gone. love you, man.
@@ChristianGiuseppe it’s also only 2 feet long… and a shrimp. Ong if we were living on earth at the same time this googly-eyed goofball would be extinct by the end of the day. Probably the only one of his kind too, definitely gets no ass.
10:11 "...the creatures of the Cambrian period tried on every possible anatomical costume." Beautiful, poetic line for a beautiful and just fascinating period of Earth and Nature's story. This video brought up an indescribable emotion from deep within me. Maybe a part of me still swims in those waters. The narrator's voice is soothing as well. Thanks for posting this~!
It was during this period eyesight was first developed on carbon life forms and the very first memory we have as an organism is the light of the moon dancing over water. A treasure I found in the Akashi records.
Scary to imagine that all other animals and organisms were happy eating plants, while one suddenly decided it was going to chow down on them instead! RIP Dr Harry Whittington (24th March 1916 - 20th june 2010). Thanks for the fascinating work!
Well evolution is not something that happens one night or intentionally. And to be fair - the actual first predators were microscopic and went from eating raw chemicals that spewed from ocean vents to other micro-organisms. But it does sound a lot better to say "first" about a large animal. Something that folks can relate to like the idea of lions or wolves.
@@omarsegovia7541 Interestingly, "trolling" actually comes from "trawling" (because you're fishing for reactions and such). So it's actually kinda correct.
There is something really, really scary about the first predator. All living things have to use the energy they have to gather more energy to continue living. There's something particularly horrifying about the fact that there was a time when all living things gathered their energy directly from sun, by eating plants, or by eating already dead organisms, but one for whatever reason, just took a bite out of another animal.
Exactly! Like why did it start to eat the other Cambrian animals? Was it for more energy? But at the same time it would use all its energy to catch prey, thus making a redundant cycle. It’s just wow
@@joka_jinx I mean it makes sense, it's common for things like cells and bacteria to just consume other small things so why wouldn't it work on bigger organisms
@@Sean.Thomas2 If you take into account that only ~10% of energy is what predators gain from their prey, it would be more efficient to be a primary producer than anything, or a primary consumer at most. Being so large, relative to all the other species in the Cambrian era is a very odd choice for the organism, being large takes up energy, and to support that body, you’d need to consume a lot of food. So yes, it is a truly interesting thing that one organism found a niche at the time, which was to predate on others for food, it certainly did not have much competition.
I love how this is filmed like a mystery movie. It really shows how archaeologists have to guess and figure things out by putting what little evidence they have together to construct a picture of the past, and why accepted beliefs can change so much with new evidence. MAN I wish we could time travel to the Cambrian era. I wonder how different it really is compared to what we've constructed. Earth is so cool aaaaa
@@OrionoftheStar Thanks. I didn't wanna be a smartass, it's just that I've seen that quite often recently and it seemed like people were forgetting how to use counterfactual clauses.
This documentary is a work of art. The music, the narrator explaining everything in a complex, yet understandable way, the models, this makes me want to watch more documentaries like this.
@@dagfinissocool what? you don't like high speed then jerk to a halt cuts? you don't like building pyramids to find out how they built the pyramids? surely you like backing up five minutes after each commercial? you don't like somebody on camera talking to an unknown person behind you and to your left?
@@maihaiki888Think of this We will never be able to see the dinosaurs that lived in rain forests and thick jungles, as the soil was too acidic to preserve bones. Think of how weird modern day jungle dwellers are
I'll leave you with this then: it took humans roughly a few thousand years to develop to the point we are now, yet we have existed for well over a few hundred thousand years upright. Most of our early history before 12,000 years ago is near impossible to obtain. There's a large portion of people who are convinced by megalithic structures that we have forgotten even our own history as a species.
Nobody would watch them. Instead, people watch CZcams channels whose thumbnails show men with their mouth open, hands on their cheeks and shouting on the mic in a desperate bid for your meager attention span.
I really appreciate documentaries of this style making note of how it took the work of dozens of researchers and countless specialists to discover this strange ancient animal
maybe you shouldn't be the type of follower that sees our creator as a sky wizard....but as our creator the father of our humanity....im so tired of people being atheist or agnostic and not knowing what they even mean as a belief and satanist are the worst of them all.....of course satan accepts you with all of your flaws because he just wants your soul. if god didn't exist really think about that.....because its not that he isn't here already, its that he gives us all free will to do what we want, and then we blame that evil on him but not the money though, we can easily dismiss god as myth but nobody wants to talk about miracles...nobody wants to discuss that though. nobody wants to discuss why a homeless man gives his last few bucks....and a millionaire calls the police for a man knocking on his front door....i know because i was the homeless man and both happened to me.. people can't begin to understand wtf a miracle is....or what free will means...im using my girls page just to say this shit. if you don't know for sure you can never be sure...right?....but faith was meant to show you that even if you can't see god, you can still feel him. being created by mistake in the entire galaxy that can possibly sustain life on other planets....after the dinosaurs went extinct...this all can't be a mistake. with all the different people that co exist together everyday, its hard to imagine we live in a place where we are just dismissing god entirely
brainwashed by making your own beliefs instead of following everyone else including religion???......hmmmm....i think you're a little kid, or at least didn't make it out of high school thats why you still use terminology like brainwashed to insult someone you don't even know.....dumbass...tell you what, if you can beat my ass ill shut up but until then I'm going to keep talking
It's amazing how close they look to the Qu from All Tomorrows, which are probably the most horrifying beings in all of sci fi. I have to believe he took inspiration from these guys when coming up with the Qu, they just look way too similar. Almost like they evolved from these guys and left earth billions of years ago only to come back and do the horrifying things they did.
@@cooliipie no it isn't, you assume your stupidity is the limit of intelligence. Nature and the universe at large is not obligated to make sense to you.
@@cooliipie do you believe that dinosaurs are also a myth? Is the earth flat? Do you believe in logical conclusions based on centuries of documented research? or just fairy tales written by the ruling class?
@@ryanblacklock8588 While i agree that it's been proven, things that we KNOW are true are called a "law". So evolution is a law of nature, not just a theory.
The title of the video is not accurate, predation. If you include single-celled organisms, predation is probably as old as cellular life itself. If we're just talking about multicellular organisms, there's trace evidence for small worms and probable sponges at least 700 million years ago. Trilobites and other arthropods were around in the early Cambrian, before Anomolocaris, as well. Anomolocaris is very cool because it's the biggest predator we know of from the period. A source for those interested: www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021552/Bengtson2002predation.pdf
By now we know the ancestors of Anomalocaris. They still had legs, less developed (if any) eyes, and their frontal appendages were still primarily used as antennae, but they preyed on smaller animals already.
Well, jellyfish are predators too. There are also worms that are predators. Maybe it would be more correct to say that these were probably the first complex, large, active and pelagic predators with an advanced neural system.
They are referring to this species as the first super predator, a hypercarnivore if that makes sense. So far they have not discovered anything that matched Anomalocaris size and ferocity. But just like with Dinosaurs, all it takes is one fossil to change everything we thought we knew.
I remember watching this on VHS over 100 times when i was a little boy. I was so afraid of the animalocarus any time i went to the beach. Then I realized it was less than a foot long. And extinct for millions of years. And maybe thats not even what it looked like.
That doesnt really correspond with with the size of the feeder tendril fossils they showed on this program. Pretty sure 1 meter was the max based on fossil size.
Earth's nature was a baby, hence why the fucked up organisms it came up with as it grew. Then she created the first reptiles and landwalkers as a toddler, then dinosaurs as a preteen till early adulthood, cuz they were cool and gnarly. And right before she hit her mid twenties, she created the direct ancestors of animals we know today, because it was time to chill and cool down with the carnage and blood. Besides, she had used up a lot pf her remaining oxigen during her early years. And now that she's in her early 30's, all she wants is some jackoff smart species that evolve fast enough to kindly fuck off somewhere else in the universe and makes her proud for contributing to the betterment of the universe, not unlike your mom when you hit 24 and you're still living at your parents. And who knows, maybe if by the time we finally do that she's in her 50's, she'd still be spry enough to birth another superspecies to conquer the universe. Maybe one made by "furries", because nature always hated humanity, the old nasty bitch.l, and wouldn't miss an opportunity to troll human kind one last time before succumbing to alcoholism...or a supernova, whatever comes first.
Not necessarily the first Predator, rather the first known "Massive Predator". Unicellular organisms have existed since millions of years before this animal, and some unicellular organisms are Predator which engulfs smaller and less mobile ones among them.
I bet this creature started as a scavenger, picking corpses (there'd be plenty of them if there were no predators since the many would die due to natural causes, diseases and age) then found out it could also grab the other scavengers that came for the corpse and slowly developed it's teeth to be able to eat through shells.
Fascinating documentary, lovely story telling. I am sure though that there have existed bacterial predators a billion years before this (possibly) first multicellular predator came on scene.
As time passes more fossils are found, old fossils gathering dust in warehouses are recognized for what they actually are etc. New evidence will support or disprove these speculations. With enough supporting evidence a reasonable certainty will form of how things actually were millions of years ago. More its worked at, the clearer the picture will be.
Yes! In science we don't use absolute certainty, but rater probability. I find it fascinating how much we know about fossils, though, given the immense time periods that have passed. To imagine these creatures living in an ocean millions and millions of years ago, eating each other, surviving ... it's absolutely mind-blowing.
Yeah, like making a mythical fable appear true every Sunday morning using a fuzzy, distorted picture of a rotted chunk of wood and claiming it to be some boat that packed every creature (including viruses ?) of the earth that bobbed up and down for decades so idiots in the future could burn people for not believing the most ridiculous stories ever claimed.
Dio Brando What the fuck are you on about? Viruses are as alive as a bloody rock. Fucking uneducated buffoon. No in all seriousness. charlie Dont try to make fun of religon when you dont even know if viruses are alive or not. It makes you look as hypocrital and stupid as those sheeple.
Bro, this doc is way too clean. Good chronology of narrator speech, relaxing voice, nice video and fantastic soundtrack. I feel in a dark souls or shadow of the colossus seeying this doc
Pre to mid Cambrian creatures are most fascinating. I wish we could seem them around today, imagine how ecosystems would change if the anomalocharis was still around. Though it wouldnt last too long depending on which zone of the ocean it would live in. They wpuldnt last to long if it was the twilight zone or below
I doubt it would last long anywhere in today's ocean. It was simplest animal predator in earth's history. Millions of years later, the evolutionary arms race has produced modern organisms that look like the latest gen iphone compared to a flip phone (Anomalocaris). While it's true that there isn't any sort of ladder of "better" or "worse" in evolution, the meta-environment of predator/prey interactions does have a better/worse directionality to it. Today's top predators make Anomalocaris look like a clunky joke. Even if it didn't get immediately eaten by a shark or something, it would probably have a hell of a time trying to catch any prey that is used to evading fast predators like sharks.
I can imagine an anomalocaris as being a somewhat decent shellfish hunting predator, its exoskeleton and armor-crunching mouthparts could protect it from claws and spines, so it would probably be decently successful in its niche.
the various musics of discovery theme, the gentle white noise in the back, the calm voice of the man, i could watch a docummentary of everything if they are like this
Music is unnatural noise. They use in make-believe shows to increase emotions to suppress critical thinking, such as, 'You derived all of that from flat and incomplete remains?'
@@candeffect Calling music "unnatural noise" and then following with something negative implies that you think music is somehow bad for not being naturally occurring, you are an insult to music. And the science stands on its own merits, it doesn't need "unnatural noise" to defend it. Anyone who is manipulated into thinking something is true just because of the music is an idiot. I mean it's obvious they use it to make the documentary more fun to watch. Imagine if it was just his voice, it would be so boring! Also, even if they were wrong about what exactly the creatures in the fossils were like, at least they are trying to figure it out and learn about the world, while being honest of their uncertainty hence the word "theory" (because it's supported by the evidence available, but not necessarily completely true). Unlike religion which just proclaims something completely random as dogma and then indoctrinates/manipulates everyone to agree while abusing anyone who disagrees. Also also, have you seen those creation documentaries?? Damn do they go to the extreme with the musical emotional pandering, and lets not forget the extreme close ups of living creatures and the wilderness, but only the majestic and beautiful stuff, not the insects, diseases and natural disasters. Talk about "make-believe shows to increase emotions to suppress critical thinking" since that is clearly their intention and none of the science is on their side.
@Nostalgia For Infinity Why the hell did I think you were talking about this documentary?? My apologies, I must have been tired at the time I wrote that comment or something, anyway I deleted it.
Not in this form at least. Anomalocaris's only defense was its size. Its most recent known relative was at least armored and had a more fishlike set of fins for swimming faster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinderhannes_bartelsi
"So, why'd you eat Billy?" "Idk, I was hungry." "But why not seaweed or some other plant?" "Idk, I was curious." "We just don't understand why you deci-" "I'm getting hungry and curious again."
I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* I saw this documentary years ago when I was a teenager. I was just channel-surfing one night, found this documentary on one of the documentary channels, and just shrugged and decided to watch it, since there was nothing better on. Fascinating stuff.
Absolutely amazing documentary, it doesn’t waste time, it makes the watcher ask questions then it shows the answers and why. It also has a moral to learn which is never throw out any idea or say something is impossible, in the science field. They thought it was shrimp like but ended up being something completely different. This documentary is not only enjoyable for the average watcher, but also has value to researchers and scientists research.
@@ka-boom2083 ANIMAL X EVOLVES!! [ignoring the ridicoulous madness amd guesswork needed to somehow cobble this FULLY FORMED animal from nothing. And the sheer complexity and fine tuning of the nervous and reproductive systems.] However, it has no pain cells. Pain evolution 1: Something evolves, the organism dies to failed mutation. His blood vessels tried to morph. Pain evolution 2: 2,000 years later, another of this organism tries to evolve pain cells. His nerves go haywire and he uses all his energy and dies. Pain evolution 3: 10 million years later, the organism mutates. However, it only got an additional arm that is less sensitive to feeling things than its other arms. It manages to give birth, but its baby dies. It dies too. RIP multi-arm animal X :( Pain evolution 4: 15 million years later, its brain mutates to try to accomadate a new pain center. It dies in a horrific, grotesque manner. All animals within hearing range [HOW IS THEIR HEARING FULLY FORMED???? OWO] run away at the atrocious screams of a dying Animal X. Animal X dies, free from the horrible evolutionary death. What a sad and awful thing to believe, innit?? But oh well, evolution "mUsT be bEliEvEd" because "ohh God goes against my desires, must stick my head in material world!!1!" [[Full-on athiests don't want to admit it]]. Pain evolution 5: 35.7 million years into the future. Dinosaurs start to evolve, both of the evolving creatures suffer and die sterile, never having kids. Due to genetic entropy, any good traits have decayed over super long spans of time. Animal X is smaller, inbreeding is sky high, and 99% of Animal Xs are unable to give birth. There are only 1000 or more of animal X in existence. At its peak, Animal X numbered over 10,500,900. All kinds of weird, disfigured Animal X's roam the earth. Still no pain receptors or center in the brain, however. Just failed tries. 35.8 million years into the future. The last Animal X dies peacefully, having lived to the end of its days. It was a fully formed one. Dinosaurs are not being evolved at present, because any animals that try simply die or suffer. This is the long, sad saga of Animal X, and this saga applies to all animals. Evolution is Fake. Its as shrimple as that.
@@brazil3207 Nothing you said makes sense, I lost a few braincells reading this. Creatures evolve right before our eyes, lack of evolution doesn't even make much sense in fact, it would be so unlikely for creatures to not evolve. I'm Christian and I simply cannot deny the presence of evolution, it's nearly impossible to deny. Anyway, your reply doesn't answer ka-boom2083's question, I in fact read it in the hopes that you would name the documentary.
Fairy shrimp look almost identical to these creatures, except they are extremely small, and they only eat algae and other aquatic plants. You can raise them in a home aquarium quite easily.
The weird prolapsing penis worm at 9:40 made me chuckle. I'd love to go back to the Cambrian era and snorkel in the shallow waters offshore... see what really was crawling/floating/swimming/scurrying around back then. Bet it would be super alien and weird compared to anything alive today. Also would love to learn what we are dead wrong about too. It must be very difficult to speculate on stuff that happened half a *BILLION* years ago.
I love it when evolution comes up with a design crazier than an actual Pokemon. I hope future gens have fossil Pokemon based on these crazy animals. Gen 3 seemed to be all Cambrian animals-Lileep is based on a Crinoid.
@@Tareltonlives Ah, but Anorith was indeed based on Anomalocaris! It's amusing how they didn't dare make it as bizarre looking as Anomalocaris. They probably thought people would dismiss it as too unnatural looking :p
It’s nice to see this program again. That’s what science is all about, finding stuff that looks weird and figuring out how it matches together. One must have a lot of imagination and may not fear to start all over again when the thing seems to be wrongly put together. I like the way this keep s on stimulating and the thinking process. Thats why I love science so much, it makes one search for answers and solutions. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to stand on the shore of the old Earth and see Anomalicaris hunt ?
This is how I remember documentaries being when I was a kid. Nowadays it seems like a lot of documentaries try to be too loud or dramatic to keep the audiences attention. They do that at the cost of having less real substance in a lot of cases.
They do that because we have raised a bunch of "activity junkies" who insist they can't learn anything unless they are kept highly "entertained" with noise and action. I have worked with students as both a teacher and a private tutor...I would be a reasonably wealthy person if I received a dollar for every time I have heard a kid make the statement that they are an "interactive" learner. They can't sit still, read, watch an informative video, or just contemplate things.
@@michaelmann8800 Interesting point. I guess it’s a cost of all the technology that has made the world both better and worse. I wish scientists and companies would do more research on how technology affects people psychologically over the long term. I guess that wouldn’t be very profitable though..
@@willo7734 Someone has to pay for that research. You are correct that it wouldn't be directly profitable, but not everything should be or needs to be directly profitable. Some things just should be done as part of maintaining a stable, healthy society, which will pay off in the long term. This is exactly why some amount of science--far more than what is currently--should be funded by the government. We could easily divert some funding that goes into defense into these types of scientific pursuits without adversely impacting national defense, but this kind of thing won't happen until the population decides it wants it.
I kept seeing this guy in depictions of the Cambrian period, and just learned its name recently. I have labeled it as one of my favorite createures from the Cambrian as well as hallucigenia and opabinia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerygmachela This is what it evolved from: A velvet worm with swimming lobes and barbs on its frontal antennae. Some smaller anomalocaridids retained the tail antennae of their ancestors, although their advanced eyes had made those unnecessary.
God, the way this thing just glides menacingly over the ocean floor in the animation, like a floating blanket of death, scooping up lesser creatures and chomping them without even breaking its stride, it's scary. Reminds me of Sin from Final Fantasy X, this vaguely aquatic, giant harbinger of death that you can't hope to fight, merely do your best to survive or escape. The ocean is freaky...
Hahaha I don't think there anything stopping you from just putting your phone down and walking to your local creek or whatever right now to "enjoy nature"..
Amazing how millions of years later, they managed to pair up a fossil's wounds with their perpetrators. Longest cold case
Lol
Justice will be served no matter what!
he's gonna get life for this, the bastard
It's called pseudoscience and Fraud or world deserving ...
Real
Imagine being the first predator on Earth, even before anyone knew to try and avoid being eaten.
The world is truly your oyster.
The world is your buffet.
And it probably took millions of years for its prey to develop countermeasures. Generations of Anomalocaris probably had nothing to fear other than competition from their kin…
@@chr0min0id Then why do you imagine this alleged first predator species came about relatively instantly?
Generally, we are likely still struggling with the remnants of traumas from that long ago. Inherited fear. Survival stress perpetuating. We are so far away from a next relevant evolutionary step where the norm becomes transcendence of competitive survival fears.
@@Dowlphin We're already domesticated.
@@Dowlphin Instincts are one thing, natural genetic legacies, but traumas and fears are another. Personal, individual, reactive emotion; still governed [largely] by the subconscious, but the origin or catalyst differs in its tense as well as its impact. There's been Some speculation that the idea of "Dragons" was imagined (among other possible reasons) as a result of ingrained instinctive "fears" toward multiple different kinds of predatory animals culminating together; large feline species (lions & tigers, through claws & teeth), large reptilian species (snakes, komodos, & crocodilians; for more teeth, venom/poison, fangs, and scales), and giant birds of prey (wings for flight with large sharp talons). There is certainly some merit to that idea, for sure, but it's quite debatable whether that ought to really be called a true 'fear' opposed to just an instinct.
And this subject frequently suffers for it, as a lot of relative quackery can often run amuck over it. Not saying that you personally fall into that category though. However, that subject of emotion vs instinct in regards to genetics often accompanies the false notion of Literal genetic "memories", and also that idea of "transcendence of competition for survival" sounds awfully idealistic if not Fantasy (after all, competitive & selective Pressures are the primary driver of Evolutionary development, so you were Basically implying that the "next relevant evolutionary step" would be the END of Evolution... and we have no justifiable reason to think or believe that there would ever Be any sort of 'end' to it; save for the Extinction of ALL Life [through annihilation and/or some magical assimilation into a single universal species, but even in that latter case that still wouldn't stop the Environment itself from possibly Changing & thus Environmental-Pressures changing right along with it]).
Bro said fuck it ima start eatin things
That thumbnail has major "do you have games on your phone" energy
Agree
Overgrown mustache
Imagine if a horseshoe crab could tell you all the weird predators it's outlived.
*sips tea* then in ‘72, I was out in the Atlantic caught up by the midrange gulf…me and my mates knew we were being followed…
@@lapointdanielplease, continue.
“Look son, kids these days think sharks are so scary but lemme tell you, back in my day fish didn’t even have jaws. What you had to worry about back then were giant sea scorpions or giant nautiloids”
@@prestigev6131 And giant orthocones.
@@prestigev6131 Massive cephalopods and bioluminescent sharks.
Why don't we get documentaries like this anymore? I love how it really plays on your sense of intrigue and wonder, it's also just so super chill
All the good channels are nothing but trash now. That's why we got rid of cable,too much money for too little stuff.
I feel yah. Documentaries nowadays always play that dramatic music as if every scene was a big battle scene in a war film. Maybe it grasps at the attention of people, but it gets tiresome. Producers need to think on the long run.
BBC documentaries are chill.
It all turned into reality shows.
@John Smith Cambrian Explosion not enough for you?
It's him!! The guy who invented PvP!!
i’ll never forget you, anomalocaris. You’re truly a one of a kind, a natural, a true legend.
can’t believe it has been 500 millions years since you’ve been gone. love you, man.
Bro the goat that forced everyone to evlove
"We Anomalocaris have *ALWAYS* ruled the world! We always *WILL* rule the world!" -Anomalocaris, 500M BC
Sad vibes man, used to be “real shrimp hours”
We're still talking about them all these millions of years later..... Watching documentaries on them. Crazy
🦐
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning, I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
Its as shrimple as that!
I love the juxtaposition between Anomalocaris's hilarious appearance and the fact that it was a fairly decent predator.
That was because no one never had to worry about being eaten
Hilarious that thing is terrifying. Imagine you’re just chillin on your patio, then mothafuckin Anomalocaris flies over you casting it’s shadow.
@@ChristianGiuseppe it doesn't exactly fly
@@ChristianGiuseppe it’s also only 2 feet long… and a shrimp. Ong if we were living on earth at the same time this googly-eyed goofball would be extinct by the end of the day. Probably the only one of his kind too, definitely gets no ass.
@@ChristianGiuseppeIt looks goofy as hell what are you on about. The type of guy to be scared of a pillbug
10:11 "...the creatures of the Cambrian period tried on every possible anatomical costume." Beautiful, poetic line for a beautiful and just fascinating period of Earth and Nature's story. This video brought up an indescribable emotion from deep within me. Maybe a part of me still swims in those waters. The narrator's voice is soothing as well. Thanks for posting this~!
Agree. Fun fact, the narrator is Stacey Keach, will cool guy back in the 80s and 90s.
yes, beautiful and poetic, too bad its all guesswork and mental gymnastics. :(
I also always feel a bit emotional when looking at the evolution of life on Earth. It's such an interesting story and we're still writing it.
@@brazil3207let me guess, yer a creationist who thinks a scientific theory is just a guess 😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
It was during this period eyesight was first developed on carbon life forms and the very first memory we have as an organism is the light of the moon dancing over water. A treasure I found in the Akashi records.
Scary to imagine that all other animals and organisms were happy eating plants, while one suddenly decided it was going to chow down on them instead!
RIP Dr Harry Whittington (24th March 1916 - 20th june 2010). Thanks for the fascinating work!
Well evolution is not something that happens one night or intentionally.
And to be fair - the actual first predators were microscopic and went from eating raw chemicals that spewed from ocean vents to other micro-organisms.
But it does sound a lot better to say "first" about a large animal. Something that folks can relate to like the idea of lions or wolves.
@@auxin903im kinda curious about the microscopic predator
Scary to think people actually believe this. US needs to ban science in schools.
@@djota207 one cell organisms eating other one cell organisms. Nothing special
@@user-ul9is6nn1v wym nothing specisl tjts dope af
8:01 "trolling the cambrian seas"
even the ancient sea creatures got trolled by the first ever predator
It’s Trawling* which means catching fish / shellfish
*takes a huge bite out of a trilobite minding it’s own business* “Yeah, I like to do a little trolling.”
@@omarsegovia7541 no its trolling
i nearly spit my tea when he said that
@@omarsegovia7541 Interestingly, "trolling" actually comes from "trawling" (because you're fishing for reactions and such). So it's actually kinda correct.
There is something really, really scary about the first predator. All living things have to use the energy they have to gather more energy to continue living.
There's something particularly horrifying about the fact that there was a time when all living things gathered their energy directly from sun, by eating plants, or by eating already dead organisms, but one for whatever reason, just took a bite out of another animal.
Couldve had world peace.... could have. Until the Qu attacked and changed the game forever.
Exactly! Like why did it start to eat the other Cambrian animals? Was it for more energy? But at the same time it would use all its energy to catch prey, thus making a redundant cycle. It’s just wow
@@joka_jinx I mean it makes sense, it's common for things like cells and bacteria to just consume other small things so why wouldn't it work on bigger organisms
Does anybody recognise the music 0:30
@@Sean.Thomas2 If you take into account that only ~10% of energy is what predators gain from their prey, it would be more efficient to be a primary producer than anything, or a primary consumer at most. Being so large, relative to all the other species in the Cambrian era is a very odd choice for the organism, being large takes up energy, and to support that body, you’d need to consume a lot of food. So yes, it is a truly interesting thing that one organism found a niche at the time, which was to predate on others for food, it certainly did not have much competition.
I love how this is filmed like a mystery movie. It really shows how archaeologists have to guess and figure things out by putting what little evidence they have together to construct a picture of the past, and why accepted beliefs can change so much with new evidence. MAN I wish we could time travel to the Cambrian era. I wonder how different it really is compared to what we've constructed. Earth is so cool aaaaa
Does this mean what, at some point, the first organism randomly evolved teeth, accidentally took a bite out of another animal and was like "YOOOOO"
It’s not that straightforward, evolution always happens "slowly"
this is exactly what happened
down to the last minute detail, this is what happened. I was there
I am the cameraman
Can you imagine how trippy the world would be if the Cambrian Extinction hadn't happened?
Nobody there to see it from that frame of mind though...
* hadn't happened
@@lemmysverrucaI've corrected it.
@@OrionoftheStar Thanks. I didn't wanna be a smartass, it's just that I've seen that quite often recently and it seemed like people were forgetting how to use counterfactual clauses.
@@lemmysverruca not to intrude but shouldn't it be quite? And not quiet?
This documentary is a work of art. The music, the narrator explaining everything in a complex, yet understandable way, the models, this makes me want to watch more documentaries like this.
too bad they stopped making docs like these in the 90s'.. documentaries made today are trash
I remember when I was a kid at school we used to watch these in class
All doc's used to be like this. Good days we had back then. The dumbed down pablum we get today I just ignore.
@@dagfinissocool what? you don't like high speed then jerk to a halt cuts? you don't like building pyramids to find out how they built the pyramids? surely you like backing up five minutes after each commercial? you don't like somebody on camera talking to an unknown person behind you and to your left?
not anti-white and woke enough
I don't know why, but that seems like a betrayal. Everyone is just vibing and some dude just comes along and takes a chunk out of you like a donut.
Excuse me, did this guy just accurately sketch what he was seeing through the microscope without looking at what he was sketching?!
Brain
Brain
Brain
Brian
Brain
This stuff is so cool. Imagine how many other interesting creatures existed back then that didn't leave fossils behind.
Oh no. Now I'm getting frustrated thinking about what we didn't get to see.
@@maihaiki888 😢 me too
Truly wondrous
@@maihaiki888Think of this
We will never be able to see the dinosaurs that lived in rain forests and thick jungles, as the soil was too acidic to preserve bones.
Think of how weird modern day jungle dwellers are
I'll leave you with this then: it took humans roughly a few thousand years to develop to the point we are now, yet we have existed for well over a few hundred thousand years upright. Most of our early history before 12,000 years ago is near impossible to obtain. There's a large portion of people who are convinced by megalithic structures that we have forgotten even our own history as a species.
I wish documentaries were made like this again, they’re so dramatic and fun
Nobody would watch them. Instead, people watch CZcams channels whose thumbnails show men with their mouth open, hands on their cheeks and shouting on the mic in a desperate bid for your meager attention span.
Nowadays it’s all reality tv
Americans can't handle stuff like this anymore.
Thank you, animalocaris. Thanks to you now I have to study and go to work.
I really appreciate documentaries of this style making note of how it took the work of dozens of researchers and countless specialists to discover this strange ancient animal
it's a wonderful thing when science brings nations together in mutual uncertainty
uncertainty is far better than certainty in unproven gibberish like religion
Evolution is a fact, but science still can not explain the origin of life.
doesn't mean there isn't...
maybe you shouldn't be the type of follower that sees our creator as a sky wizard....but as our creator the father of our humanity....im so tired of people being atheist or agnostic and not knowing what they even mean as a belief and satanist are the worst of them all.....of course satan accepts you with all of your flaws because he just wants your soul. if god didn't exist really think about that.....because its not that he isn't here already, its that he gives us all free will to do what we want, and then we blame that evil on him but not the money though, we can easily dismiss god as myth but nobody wants to talk about miracles...nobody wants to discuss that though. nobody wants to discuss why a homeless man gives his last few bucks....and a millionaire calls the police for a man knocking on his front door....i know because i was the homeless man and both happened to me.. people can't begin to understand wtf a miracle is....or what free will means...im using my girls page just to say this shit. if you don't know for sure you can never be sure...right?....but faith was meant to show you that even if you can't see god, you can still feel him. being created by mistake in the entire galaxy that can possibly sustain life on other planets....after the dinosaurs went extinct...this all can't be a mistake. with all the different people that co exist together everyday, its hard to imagine we live in a place where we are just dismissing god entirely
brainwashed by making your own beliefs instead of following everyone else including religion???......hmmmm....i think you're a little kid, or at least didn't make it out of high school thats why you still use terminology like brainwashed to insult someone you don't even know.....dumbass...tell you what, if you can beat my ass ill shut up but until then I'm going to keep talking
When your shrimp cocktail bites back
Nice one.
It's amazing how close they look to the Qu from All Tomorrows, which are probably the most horrifying beings in all of sci fi. I have to believe he took inspiration from these guys when coming up with the Qu, they just look way too similar. Almost like they evolved from these guys and left earth billions of years ago only to come back and do the horrifying things they did.
new headcanon just dropped baaabyyyyy
Walked so pop punk singers could run, fucking hero
This is actually Gerard Way from before he released his first album. Feel old yet?
Incredible how random mutations just eventually work. The refining nature of evolution is fascinating.
It's a myth and theory.
@@cooliipie no it isn't, you assume your stupidity is the limit of intelligence. Nature and the universe at large is not obligated to make sense to you.
It’s been proven numerous times. A “theory” in scientific language is something that we KNOW is true and are 105% certain about
@@cooliipie do you believe that dinosaurs are also a myth? Is the earth flat? Do you believe in logical conclusions based on centuries of documented research? or just fairy tales written by the ruling class?
@@ryanblacklock8588 While i agree that it's been proven, things that we KNOW are true are called a "law". So evolution is a law of nature, not just a theory.
or rather, the first predator, that we know of
The title of the video is not accurate, predation. If you include single-celled organisms, predation is probably as old as cellular life itself. If we're just talking about multicellular organisms, there's trace evidence for small worms and probable sponges at least 700 million years ago. Trilobites and other arthropods were around in the early Cambrian, before Anomolocaris, as well. Anomolocaris is very cool because it's the biggest predator we know of from the period. A source for those interested: www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021552/Bengtson2002predation.pdf
Vann Smith flippin neato! thx 4 the link.
By now we know the ancestors of Anomalocaris. They still had legs, less developed (if any) eyes, and their frontal appendages were still primarily used as antennae, but they preyed on smaller animals already.
Well, jellyfish are predators too. There are also worms that are predators. Maybe it would be more correct to say that these were probably the first complex, large, active and pelagic predators with an advanced neural system.
They are referring to this species as the first super predator, a hypercarnivore if that makes sense. So far they have not discovered anything that matched Anomalocaris size and ferocity.
But just like with Dinosaurs, all it takes is one fossil to change everything we thought we knew.
Anomalocaris my beloved
I love these types of documentaries. They really help me appreciate the odds of being born not only a human, but one in the past century.
I remember watching this on VHS over 100 times when i was a little boy. I was so afraid of the animalocarus any time i went to the beach. Then I realized it was less than a foot long. And extinct for millions of years. And maybe thats not even what it looked like.
anomalocaris can reach 2 meters in length
That doesnt really correspond with with the size of the feeder tendril fossils they showed on this program. Pretty sure 1 meter was the max based on fossil size.
He said they grow up to 2 feet long
To madlarkin8: Extinct for no more than about 4400 years - the date of the worldwide flood.
They could have reached some 1-2 meters, based on my reading
such a life form is impossible.
nature: "OK, dude. Hold my beer."
István Sipos fuck you
István Sipos nature is so fucking scary ;n;
Wall•E The robot
nature is fucking crazy and it's great. ever heard of platybelodons? yeah boy
@Jamed Lamed
what's your problem?
Earth's nature was a baby, hence why the fucked up organisms it came up with as it grew. Then she created the first reptiles and landwalkers as a toddler, then dinosaurs as a preteen till early adulthood, cuz they were cool and gnarly. And right before she hit her mid twenties, she created the direct ancestors of animals we know today, because it was time to chill and cool down with the carnage and blood. Besides, she had used up a lot pf her remaining oxigen during her early years.
And now that she's in her early 30's, all she wants is some jackoff smart species that evolve fast enough to kindly fuck off somewhere else in the universe and makes her proud for contributing to the betterment of the universe, not unlike your mom when you hit 24 and you're still living at your parents.
And who knows, maybe if by the time we finally do that she's in her 50's, she'd still be spry enough to birth another superspecies to conquer the universe. Maybe one made by "furries", because nature always hated humanity, the old nasty bitch.l, and wouldn't miss an opportunity to troll human kind one last time before succumbing to alcoholism...or a supernova, whatever comes first.
the world will never feel the same about the goat., he tried his best
Monsters
20 000 000 years is such a baffling timespan for the existence of something of which presence I wasn't even aware of 10 minutes ago
5:47 These scientists having fun with their toy models is so darn cute.
Not necessarily the first Predator, rather the first known "Massive Predator".
Unicellular organisms have existed since millions of years before this animal, and some unicellular organisms are Predator which engulfs smaller and less mobile ones among them.
apex predator
The true “Great Leviathan”
Oh no ! Busted !
Some people don't consider them "animals"
AMONGUS😂
I bet this creature started as a scavenger, picking corpses (there'd be plenty of them if there were no predators since the many would die due to natural causes, diseases and age) then found out it could also grab the other scavengers that came for the corpse and slowly developed it's teeth to be able to eat through shells.
Ever since the tribute I've been getting a bunch anomalocaris videos.
The model replication and bite was amazing.
It just keeps moving forward.
Until all it’s enemies are destroyed
Fascinating documentary, lovely story telling.
I am sure though that there have existed bacterial predators a billion years before this (possibly) first multicellular predator came on scene.
The first dude that decides his neighbors are edible
Hey that's my great to the power of 58 grandfather.
That's an arthropod, not a vertebrate.
probably a bit more than 58, lets say 350000
Super distant cousin, not grandfather.
How are all 3 of the comments prime r/wooosh content?
@@gaving.griffon2703 whoooooosh
Fittingly enough for the first creature to hunt sea life, "Anomalocaris" anagrams into "Calamari Soon".
how did you even figure that out...
Imagine literally everyone just chilling not minding others
And all of a sudden the dude next to you just starts eating someone
its crazy to me how fossils can only give us tools of speculation and we could be completely wrong in our imaginings
As time passes more fossils are found, old fossils gathering dust in warehouses are recognized for what they actually are etc. New evidence will support or disprove these speculations. With enough supporting evidence a reasonable certainty will form of how things actually were millions of years ago. More its worked at, the clearer the picture will be.
Yes! In science we don't use absolute certainty, but rater probability. I find it fascinating how much we know about fossils, though, given the immense time periods that have passed. To imagine these creatures living in an ocean millions and millions of years ago, eating each other, surviving ... it's absolutely mind-blowing.
Yeah, like making a mythical fable appear true every Sunday morning using a fuzzy, distorted picture of a rotted chunk of wood and claiming it to be some boat that packed every creature (including viruses ?) of the earth that bobbed up and down for decades so idiots in the future could burn people for not believing the most ridiculous stories ever claimed.
Charlie Franz You need to bring religion into everything? Seriously? Nobody is doubting this evidence.
Dio Brando
What the fuck are you on about? Viruses are as alive as a bloody rock.
Fucking uneducated buffoon.
No in all seriousness. charlie Dont try to make fun of religon when you dont even know if viruses are alive or not. It makes you look as hypocrital and stupid as those sheeple.
9:07 i like how the tail wiggle synched with the musical trill just perfectly lol
Bro, this doc is way too clean. Good chronology of narrator speech, relaxing voice, nice video and fantastic soundtrack. I feel in a dark souls or shadow of the colossus seeying this doc
He walked so edp could run
"The creatures of the Cambrian explosion tried one very possible anatomical posture, yet few of these designs would survive."
Rolly polly won.
Simple. Elegant. It can fucking roll. What else does nature need?
@@adamyoung6797 Very true, soon our overlords shall be rolly pollies.
And velvet worm
What about the horseshoe crab?
:(
Pre to mid Cambrian creatures are most fascinating. I wish we could seem them around today, imagine how ecosystems would change if the anomalocharis was still around. Though it wouldnt last too long depending on which zone of the ocean it would live in. They wpuldnt last to long if it was the twilight zone or below
I doubt it would last long anywhere in today's ocean. It was simplest animal predator in earth's history. Millions of years later, the evolutionary arms race has produced modern organisms that look like the latest gen iphone compared to a flip phone (Anomalocaris). While it's true that there isn't any sort of ladder of "better" or "worse" in evolution, the meta-environment of predator/prey interactions does have a better/worse directionality to it. Today's top predators make Anomalocaris look like a clunky joke. Even if it didn't get immediately eaten by a shark or something, it would probably have a hell of a time trying to catch any prey that is used to evading fast predators like sharks.
Fr. I love looking at these early animals. It truly feels like busting
Keep it away from creepy Joe, he will attempt to do unnatural things to it
I can imagine an anomalocaris as being a somewhat decent shellfish hunting predator, its exoskeleton and armor-crunching mouthparts could protect it from claws and spines, so it would probably be decently successful in its niche.
@@tau-5794 I agree, I believe it would be very useful to cut down the invasive Oysters and other bottom dwellers
the various musics of discovery theme, the gentle white noise in the back, the calm voice of the man, i could watch a docummentary of everything if they are like this
Proof that one toxic player ruins it for everyone
I wish they'd do more detailed replicas! That thing looked scary as heck just from it's size alone.
The music is brilliant
Music is unnatural noise. They use in make-believe shows to increase emotions to suppress critical thinking, such as, 'You derived all of that from flat and incomplete remains?'
@@candeffect Calling music "unnatural noise" and then following with something negative implies that you think music is somehow bad for not being naturally occurring, you are an insult to music.
And the science stands on its own merits, it doesn't need "unnatural noise" to defend it. Anyone who is manipulated into thinking something is true just because of the music is an idiot. I mean it's obvious they use it to make the documentary more fun to watch. Imagine if it was just his voice, it would be so boring!
Also, even if they were wrong about what exactly the creatures in the fossils were like, at least they are trying to figure it out and learn about the world, while being honest of their uncertainty hence the word "theory" (because it's supported by the evidence available, but not necessarily completely true). Unlike religion which just proclaims something completely random as dogma and then indoctrinates/manipulates everyone to agree while abusing anyone who disagrees.
Also also, have you seen those creation documentaries?? Damn do they go to the extreme with the musical emotional pandering, and lets not forget the extreme close ups of living creatures and the wilderness, but only the majestic and beautiful stuff, not the insects, diseases and natural disasters. Talk about "make-believe shows to increase emotions to suppress critical thinking" since that is clearly their intention and none of the science is on their side.
It's so relaxing and good to sleep 😍
@@julzyboy8960 Thank You
@Nostalgia For Infinity Why the hell did I think you were talking about this documentary?? My apologies, I must have been tired at the time I wrote that comment or something, anyway I deleted it.
ah yes, 7 years ago, 2013
WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOVEMBER 2016
I'm gonna throw up
The music in this piece is lovely
Imagine this thing released into the wild now. I wonder if it could compete with anything at all to survive. It looks so old fashioned and cumbersome.
Not in this form at least. Anomalocaris's only defense was its size. Its most recent known relative was at least armored and had a more fishlike set of fins for swimming faster.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinderhannes_bartelsi
Probably doesn't even have bluetooth.
@@moarsaur or HDDVD
You know that these creatures could probably have the most advanced eyes on all planet earth even to this days?
@@luisfersasuke Upon what are you basing that?
Looks like something Lovecraft would think up.
At least they don't have that Innsmouth look.
*Cthulhu wants to know your location*
Looks more like something straight out of spore
Not enough eyes nor tentacles.
They look more like a video game creature to me. Think Half-Life!
The Anomalocaris is an interesting prehistoric animal and it was the first predator that's amazing
"So, why'd you eat Billy?"
"Idk, I was hungry."
"But why not seaweed or some other plant?"
"Idk, I was curious."
"We just don't understand why you deci-"
"I'm getting hungry and curious again."
I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* I saw this documentary years ago when I was a teenager. I was just channel-surfing one night, found this documentary on one of the documentary channels, and just shrugged and decided to watch it, since there was nothing better on.
Fascinating stuff.
Planet of Life was the series
Absolutely amazing documentary, it doesn’t waste time, it makes the watcher ask questions then it shows the answers and why. It also has a moral to learn which is never throw out any idea or say something is impossible, in the science field. They thought it was shrimp like but ended up being something completely different. This documentary is not only enjoyable for the average watcher, but also has value to researchers and scientists research.
What’s the name
@@ka-boom2083 ANIMAL X EVOLVES!! [ignoring the ridicoulous madness amd guesswork needed to somehow cobble this FULLY FORMED animal from nothing. And the sheer complexity and fine tuning of the nervous and reproductive systems.]
However, it has no pain cells.
Pain evolution 1: Something evolves, the organism dies to failed mutation. His blood vessels tried to morph.
Pain evolution 2: 2,000 years later, another of this organism tries to evolve pain cells. His nerves go haywire and he uses all his energy and dies.
Pain evolution 3: 10 million years later, the organism mutates. However, it only got an additional arm that is less sensitive to feeling things than its other arms. It manages to give birth, but its baby dies. It dies too. RIP multi-arm animal X :(
Pain evolution 4: 15 million years later, its brain mutates to try to accomadate a new pain center. It dies in a horrific, grotesque manner. All animals within hearing range [HOW IS THEIR HEARING FULLY FORMED???? OWO] run away at the atrocious screams of a dying Animal X. Animal X dies, free from the horrible evolutionary death. What a sad and awful thing to believe, innit?? But oh well, evolution "mUsT be bEliEvEd" because "ohh God goes against my desires, must stick my head in material world!!1!" [[Full-on athiests don't want to admit it]].
Pain evolution 5: 35.7 million years into the future. Dinosaurs start to evolve, both of the evolving creatures suffer and die sterile, never having kids. Due to genetic entropy, any good traits have decayed over super long spans of time. Animal X is smaller, inbreeding is sky high, and 99% of Animal Xs are unable to give birth. There are only 1000 or more of animal X in existence. At its peak, Animal X numbered over 10,500,900. All kinds of weird, disfigured Animal X's roam the earth. Still no pain receptors or center in the brain, however. Just failed tries.
35.8 million years into the future. The last Animal X dies peacefully, having lived to the end of its days. It was a fully formed one.
Dinosaurs are not being evolved at present, because any animals that try simply die or suffer.
This is the long, sad saga of Animal X, and this saga applies to all animals.
Evolution is Fake. Its as shrimple as that.
@@brazil3207 Nothing you said makes sense, I lost a few braincells reading this. Creatures evolve right before our eyes, lack of evolution doesn't even make much sense in fact, it would be so unlikely for creatures to not evolve. I'm Christian and I simply cannot deny the presence of evolution, it's nearly impossible to deny. Anyway, your reply doesn't answer ka-boom2083's question, I in fact read it in the hopes that you would name the documentary.
@@BltchErica like to think, as a Christian) that god didn’t just create everything but started it and then just left it alone immediately to watch
It's debunked that this is all wrong, this animal wasnt a predator
I love the idea that at some point an animal was like "fuk it, I'm eating these others mofos" and that's how they became the first predator.
For people who are wondering what this documentary is called, the name is Planet of Life: Ancient Oceans, and Palent of Life is a whole series.
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thank you!
Thank you so much! : )
Too bad they no longer exsist. Theyd be cool aquarium specimens.
agreed
Look up Mantis Shrimp.
Fairy shrimp look almost identical to these creatures, except they are extremely small, and they only eat algae and other aquatic plants. You can raise them in a home aquarium quite easily.
It would be cool if the anomalocaris still exist today so we could make anomalocaris stew with vegetables hhmm.
Wolfy Kaname The only direct descendant of Cambrian invertebrates left is the horseshoe crab.
That model is unreal. I wonder where it is now? This documentary is from the early 90s.
probably broken or collecting dust somewhere
Probably in a closet
Evolving
Only Cambrian era kids remember 😔✊️
6 years later and this video gets all the algorithm juice
The weird prolapsing penis worm at 9:40 made me chuckle. I'd love to go back to the Cambrian era and snorkel in the shallow waters offshore... see what really was crawling/floating/swimming/scurrying around back then. Bet it would be super alien and weird compared to anything alive today. Also would love to learn what we are dead wrong about too. It must be very difficult to speculate on stuff that happened half a *BILLION* years ago.
I love how these always have a “no one knew what was causing this, UNTIL NOW!” Situations
Why wouldn't they
@sithgod999 they should, it just sounds comical like in a movie.
Respectfully of course.
Why is this channel not functional anymore? This is so amazing.
The music the presentation everything top notch.
Whoa, this was so cool and revived my absolute love for prehistoric lifeforms and fossils. Subscribing.
Anorith is a cool pokemon
I was hoping someone would say something about Anorith
I love it when evolution comes up with a design crazier than an actual Pokemon. I hope future gens have fossil Pokemon based on these crazy animals. Gen 3 seemed to be all Cambrian animals-Lileep is based on a Crinoid.
@@Tareltonlives Ah, but Anorith was indeed based on Anomalocaris! It's amusing how they didn't dare make it as bizarre looking as Anomalocaris. They probably thought people would dismiss it as too unnatural looking :p
@@MrGeorgeknows By the way, Scorpiomon from Digimon is also a Anomanocaris.
@@solalflechelles1216 I highly doubt that. Just look at cradily.
Beautiful creature. Hate to meet one swimming though.
It wouldn't be more dangerous to you than a house cat.
Youre to big for it to attack.
it would be like coming across a big shrimp
It was only about a yard long. It might give some nasty bites but it sure wouldn't be mortally 'dangerous' in any way.
Beautiful?
Wow. Amazing documentary. That thing looks terrifying
Random sea creature: boy, life is so peaceful he-
anomalocaris: GUESS WHAT I CAN DO, MOTHERFUCKERS!
It’s nice to see this program again. That’s what science is all about, finding stuff that looks weird and figuring out how it matches together. One must have a lot of imagination and may not fear to start all over again when the thing seems to be wrongly put together. I like the way this keep s on stimulating and the thinking process. Thats why I love science so much, it makes one search for answers and solutions. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to stand on the shore of the old Earth and see Anomalicaris hunt ?
Chicken nuggets pretty good too
It would be beautiful, all the nature and wildlife would be so different too.
@@hijackedmemes6988 Indeed.
This is how I remember documentaries being when I was a kid. Nowadays it seems like a lot of documentaries try to be too loud or dramatic to keep the audiences attention. They do that at the cost of having less real substance in a lot of cases.
They do that because we have raised a bunch of "activity junkies" who insist they can't learn anything unless they are kept highly "entertained" with noise and action. I have worked with students as both a teacher and a private tutor...I would be a reasonably wealthy person if I received a dollar for every time I have heard a kid make the statement that they are an "interactive" learner. They can't sit still, read, watch an informative video, or just contemplate things.
@@michaelmann8800 Interesting point. I guess it’s a cost of all the technology that has made the world both better and worse. I wish scientists and companies would do more research on how technology affects people psychologically over the long term. I guess that wouldn’t be very profitable though..
@@willo7734 Someone has to pay for that research. You are correct that it wouldn't be directly profitable, but not everything should be or needs to be directly profitable. Some things just should be done as part of maintaining a stable, healthy society, which will pay off in the long term. This is exactly why some amount of science--far more than what is currently--should be funded by the government. We could easily divert some funding that goes into defense into these types of scientific pursuits without adversely impacting national defense, but this kind of thing won't happen until the population decides it wants it.
Hahaha, you can see how they instantly perked up at the sight of the model. They nerded out so hard 😂 5:45
amazing how they recovered milions old footage of them, really appreacieate it
I kept seeing this guy in depictions of the Cambrian period, and just learned its name recently. I have labeled it as one of my favorite createures from the Cambrian as well as hallucigenia and opabinia.
Wow 👍
I remember watching this on the Discovery channel when I was 8. Its still one of my favorite prehistoric animals.
Damn that was fascinating! I have a lot of respect for the all the researchers who are able to shed light on earths ancient history
man I just love the idea of playing with a model and feeding it stuff then seeing how well that matches up with fossils
This is a certified Anomalocaris tribute moment...
Ah, the old style documentaries, made you listen and made you calm too. They rarely play them nowadays on some random TV channel.
so this is it ... the first animal that didn't eat vegetables ... the first animal that ate ... other animals
It's amazing how a cute thing can turn frightening when it's ten times bigger
5:14 bro really said “😐”
My guy… subscribing of just this video, gassing to watch the rest of your stuff… coooooool content
Still better graphics than the live action Little mermaid. 🧜🏾♀️
looks like a spore creation lol
eren bros we lost we must kneel to anomalocaris dono...
anomalocaribros we won
I'm more curious as to what the anomalouscaryous evolved from. A beast like that didn't just appear overnight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerygmachela
This is what it evolved from: A velvet worm with swimming lobes and barbs on its frontal antennae. Some smaller anomalocaridids retained the tail antennae of their ancestors, although their advanced eyes had made those unnecessary.
6:13 “how the mouth functioned was of keen interest to all three men”
Easy boys 😅
God, the way this thing just glides menacingly over the ocean floor in the animation, like a floating blanket of death, scooping up lesser creatures and chomping them without even breaking its stride, it's scary. Reminds me of Sin from Final Fantasy X, this vaguely aquatic, giant harbinger of death that you can't hope to fight, merely do your best to survive or escape. The ocean is freaky...
Not a phone in sight, just living in the moment. Take me back.
Hahaha I don't think there anything stopping you from just putting your phone down and walking to your local creek or whatever right now to "enjoy nature"..