Cambrian

【Prehistoric Life】Index – Life Through 4.6 Billion Years, in Order

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【Life of the Cambrian】Leanchoilia – The Whip-Armed Predator Once Written Off as an Eyeless Mud-Eater

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【Life of the Cambrian】Yunnanozoon – Reclassified Five Times in Thirty Years, and Still Unsettled

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【Life of the Cambrian】Myllokunmingia – The Oldest Fish in the Textbooks, Known From a Single Specimen

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【Life of the Cambrian】Marrella – 25,000 Specimens, and Still No Group to Put It In

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【Life of the Cambrian】Pikaia – Seventy Years as the Oldest Human Ancestor, and What Came After

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【Life of the Cambrian】Hallucigenia – Forty Years Upside Down and Back to Front

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【Life of the Cambrian】Halkieria – For 22 Years, Only the Scales Were Known

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【Life of the Cambrian】Haikouichthys – The Oldest Fish Had Four Eyes

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【Life of the Cambrian】Nectocaris – Not a Shrimp, Not a Fish, Not a Squid, but a Relative of Arrow Worms

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【Life of the Cambrian】Trilobites – Eyes With Lenses Made of Calcite Crystal

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【Life of the Cambrian】Saccorhytus – Why a 1 mm Sack With No Anus Was Called a Human Ancestor

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【Life of the Cambrian】Opabinia – The Reconstruction That Got Laughed At, and Then Became the Textbook

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【Life of the Cambrian】Ottoia – The Worm Whose Gut Contents Revealed a 500-Million-Year-Old Menu

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【Life of the Cambrian】Wiwaxia – A Mollusk’s Mouth on an Annelid’s Back

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【Life of the Cambrian】Aysheaia – The Shape Was Right From the Start; Only Its Identity Stayed Open

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【Life of the Cambrian】Anomalocaris – Described as Three Separate Animals: a Shrimp, a Jellyfish and a Sea Cucumber

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【Earth Timeline 04】The Cambrian Period – When the Blueprints of Animal Bodies Came Together