500 million-year-old 'abnormal shrimp' used facial spikes to 'pincushion' soft prey
When you purchase through tie-in on our situation , we may earn an affiliate perpetration . Here ’s how it work . Around 500 million age ago , an apex predator no with child than a house cat terrorized the seas in hunting of target to puncture with its spiky facial appendages . For years , paleontologists thought that the arthropodAnomalocaris canadensis , whose name about means " the unnatural shrimp from Canada , " used its spears to pierce trilobite and other hard - shell prey ....