Before killer whales and polar bears, before sharks and tyrannosaurs, the world’s top predator was probably a bizarre animal called Anomalocaris. It lived in the Cambrian period, over half a billion ...

A frightening predator that ruled the oceans 500 million years ago was the original bug-eyed monster, scientists have discovered. Anomalocaris - meaning 'abnormal shrimp' - was the stuff of nightmares ...

The great, car-sized predatory "shrimp" that was master of Earth's seas a half billion years ago may have been unable to eat anything harder than baby food. Several lines of evidence along with a new ...

The great, car-sized predatory "shrimp" that was master of Earth's seas a half billion years ago may have been unable to eat anything harder than baby food. Several lines of evidence along with a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With appendages growing out of its head and an armored mouth, an ancient shrimplike creature was thought to be the quintessential ...

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Australian scientists on Thursday said they discovered a pair of insect-like eyes belonging to a freakish prehistoric super-predator called Anomalocaris, which had 16,000 individual lenses.

500 million years ago, the meter-long Anomalocaris roamed the Cambrian seas. Researchers once thought that Anomalocaris crushed trilobites with their teeth, but recent fossil analysis suggests ...