February 13. The Burgess Shale, again




History of the Earth show

Summary: Today’s podcast is a brief report on my personal favorite Burgess Shale animals: Anomalocaris and Opabinia. Anomalocaris - up to 6 feet long Opabinia - less than 3 inches long And here is a link to the February 2014 news report mentioned in the podcast (thanks to Colleen Elliott for finding this). And another link, with photos. Artist’s reconstructions both by Nobu Tamura, via Wikipedia under GNU Free Documentation License: Anomalocaris  •  Opabinia.