AAAAHHH ITS SO CUTE!!!

Heh heh ^^ ^^

One doesn't often see a chibi Anomalocaris. Well done!

Thank you !! ^^ ^^

reminds me of Dr. Zoidberg. Terrific job on it =)

Dr Zoidberg would be more on the Ediacarian period I think... XD XD

Oh man, he's crazy good at drawing and suddenly I realize he's also like thirty times smarter than me. ;>_>

Naaaah, I just love sciences, including paleontology, and ESPECIALLY those first ages that are usually ignored or unknown to most. So no wonder !!

aww cute it wants a hug (and later a snack...YOU!)

Yup, better watch what it got underside.......... ^^'''

yeah I see a dark shadow! XD

... And some impressive "teeth" !

That's so cute, I love those things!

^^ ^^

I wanna pet him.. #^_^#

Be careful though, you don't know what ideas a brain more than 500 million years old got... ;P XD

He will DESPERATLY need a female, I think.. ^___^

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !!!!!!!!

Si je trouve ça un jour dans l'eau de mes toilettes, je crois que je m'inquiéterais quand même un peu ! ^^

HA HA HA HA HA, c'est clair XD XD XD XD
Dis, t'as vu la bonne nouvelle pour Eustache ? Va voir son dernier journal :) :)

Heu... J'avoue que j'ai pas tout compris ! ^^"
Il faisait des études en psychologie !?

Probablement oui, mais l'important c'est le résultat XD

So much adorable X3

Weeeeeh !!! :D

Comment résister à pareil regard ? :3
(lol, ça doit surement être ainsi que la bestiole se nourrit, elle attendrit ses proies avant XD )

C'est bien ça qui est inquiétant... XD XD

I want to take it home . . .

... And call it George and... ;3

eee! One of those not-a-shimp things from the pre-cambrian! Must'a been cool to be a marine biologist back in evolution's trial period huh?

Clearly !!!! But such biologist would have some difficulties to breathe though XD
Anyway, that's rather cambrian age than precambrian

oi, I can't believe I made such a noobish mistake, time to go brush up on my evolutionary history...

Overly cute thing :D the eyes ^_^ I'd like to hug this thing :D

(watch my other comments about that above ! ;P ^^'' )

Draw this!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia It's soooo cute *_* and transparent XD HAHAHAHAHA

HA HA HA XD XD
That's too hot for me ;D

Wow look at her curves. I wanna hit it. XD

XD XD XD

Oh my god that is adorable XD

;D ;D

... Because it wants to lure you ;D ;D

Cute! Though I bet if you try to hug it , it gets you with its mandibles.

Exactly (see comments above ! ;3 )

Maintenant que j'y pense, ça me rappelle cet épisode des Simpson, dans lequel Homer adoptait un homard...
Et le baptisait " Pincette" Homard Simpson !

Ha ha, ce qui me fait à mon tour penser à un épisode de "Father of the Pride" du coup...

Aw, a cute trilobite! :)

Not really... Not at all in fact, not even slightly related !! XD
But I tried to make it cute, yes ! ;3

I wonder how they taste boiled, and dipped in butter . . .

I've got the idea most of them must have the consistency of gum... But for the taste ?...

Lobster!

XD

Cute... whatever it is.

It's a "Burgess Shale" creature called Anomolochyrus. The world's first 'top predator' - they used to scoop up trilobites and go nom nom nom!

So that's the guy who ate the trilobites? That's hardcore!

Ha ha, not quite, trilobites survived them loooooong after.
Why trilobites disappeared is a total mystery to me, having been one of the most successful creatures crawling in the seas for not a couple, nor a dozen, but hundreds of millenaries...

Ha hahahhahaaaa!

Anomolochyrus! One of my favourtite silly creatures!


Gleeeeee!

You are served ^^ ^^

(Isn't it spelled anomalocaris though ?)

probably!

Sweet!

I always thought those were awesome.

I concur

Double mega lovely pose and pic! Greatly donw work! Mega wow! XD XD XD XD XD

Thaaaankikikikikies PF !!!! ^^ ^^ ^^

*sprinkles fish flakes on the water* So cute.

^^ ^^

those eyes!! just pour out cuteness.

Thaaaaank you Bearbun ^^ ^^ ^^
Coming from you that's especially valuable :3

*Snickers* Aww...! X3

^^ ^^ ^^

Hey, it's the 'eat me!' creature from a good while ago. Cool. Now the question is, is it happier in the water, or on a sushi roll...

Naaaah, opabinia and anomalocaris were two very different creatures - To get Anomalocaris on a suchi roll you'd have to prepare a three-feet long rice roll !! XD

Really, looks a lot like the other one I remember but hey, you're the artist, I guess you'd know better. By the similarities though, I take it they belonged to the same genus/species or whatever it's called?

They DID resemble a lot indeed, apart from the cephalothorax part. But if I remember correctly, they were of two COMPLETELY different kind of species - and maybe even more different than that for having a body organization completely different (like annelids compared to insects) - and both totally extinct.

So two species that just happened to evolve into very similar forms then... interesting. Did they exist in the same period, or did one live at one point, and another later?

Both at the very same period.
At that time, there were many creatures sharing the same kind of design : did you notice they also look like a trilobit, another creature that appeared at that same period, though that's also another COMPLETELY different from those two ?!

Huh, no I didn't, though checking it out on wikipedia, yeah, they do look rather similar. Trilobite has a shell, but other than that they're pretty much the same. Also managed to get a size attached to that little creature in this drawing too. 3 feet long... that is so not something I'd want to find swimming next to me!

The fun part is that while they weren't closely related, they were so far back on the evolutionary tree, they're still related. XD All of the listed creatures (trilobites, Opabina, Anomalocariids) were linked by a complex web of who evolved into what via which way, and to be fair it's kinda like looking at a jigsaw puzzle with only half the pieces...but they were all definently related in the way a squid is related to a clam.

Huh, neat to know, thanks.

And I have no idea why, but your avatar thingy is just very distracting to look at.

I never have trouble finding my posts in a long forum. 8D

That's a good reason to have one that looks like that.

awwwwwwww, cute...but id still eat it

XD XD XD

Cuteness directly from the cambrian seas!!!

Exactly !!!!! ^^ ^^ ^^

I <3 him :3

^^ ^^

Awww, so even prehistoric pseudo crustaceans with spikey grabbing claws and a amazingly spikey and serrated mouthcan look cute! Nice job!

This has always been one of my favorite cambrian creatures ever, because it looks like it schould be swimming in the seas (or gas clouds) of another world a million light years from here. (^_^)

Thaaank youuu ^^ ^^ ^^

ha ha ha hah a hah. it is even looking cute!!! lol

^^ ^^ ^^

Is this one a citizen of china or Canada? Either way, yay anomalocariids!

This got absolutely no meaning at all then, all that was underwater !! ;P

This is true....I guess, more importantly, are we talking Cambrian or Devonian Anomalocariids? They found a devonian one, so the books need editting.

They did ? o.0 I wanna see that information !!!! That's awesome if it's confirmed....

Sadly, it's a book, so I can't copy/paste.

I did find a thingamajig online talking about it. http://ediacaran.blogspot.com/2009/.....malocaris.html

Another article speculates the same specimen is a sea scorpion of some sort: http://www.sciencedaily.com/release.....0205142145.htm

... Thanks again for the references, I've tried to collect the rare different infos on it, and it's really an extraordinary paleontologic cryptid I'd say !!

From the sea-scorpion article, describing the creature:
The fossil's head section has large bulbous eyes, a circular mouth opening and a pair of segmented, opposable appendages with spines projecting inward along their length. The trunk section is made up of 12 segments, each with small appendages, and a long tail spine. Between the head and trunk, there is a pair of large triangular wing-like limbs — that likely propelled the creature like a swimming penguin, according to Briggs. Unlike its ancestors from the Cambrian period, which reached three feet in length, Schinderhannes is only about 4 inches long.

The arguement for it being an anomalocaris is very strong there. XD

Hey look, it's a crawdaddy! Or is it a shrimp?

Ha ha ha, it's a little more.... ancient than that !! XD

Very cute!

(BTW, where's the picture of the Opabinia sushi?)

Should be there... :3 --> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1692960/

Thanks! Someone else posted something involving sushi, and I wanted to link.

Oh, thanks !! ^^

Luks lyke Artemia Salina 2 mi, which live in salt water

Mmmmh, you are right, they look a little alike... apart from their size !! ;D

Size?! well, the largest ones I've seen are about an inch.

.. And the biggest anomalocaris discovered were up to three feet long :)