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Gigantic Sea Troll Found!

not.a.sock.puppet — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:51:40 GMT

A new filter-feeding giant that trolled the Cambrian seas has been unearthed in Greenland.

The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny shrimp-like creatures from the sea, and likely evolved from the top predators of the day to take advantage of a bloom in new foods in its ecosystem, said study co-author Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England.

While on an excavation trip in 2009, the team unearthed fragments of strange feeding appendages attached to a head shield from an unknown creature. The appendages, which date to about 520 million years ago, belonged to a group known as anomalocarids, the top predators of their day.

These ancient sea monsters grew to about 70 centimetres (2.7 feet) long and "looked like something completely out of this planet," with massive frontal appendages for grasping prey, huge eyes on stalks, and a mouth shaped like a piece of canned pineapple, Vinther told Live Science.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/22196495/gigantic-cambrian-shrimplike-creature-unearthed-greenland/

Re: Gigantic Sea Troll Found!

the_great_she_elephant — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 06:21:54 GMT

Hey, that's cool - a giant kreepy kraully

I'm pretty sure the word they should have used was trawled, though.

Re: Gigantic Sea Troll Found!

icyfroth — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:34:41 GMT

Journos these days don't seem to be able to spell or have a real in-depth grasp of the english language, she-el. Either that or they need to be quick with their headlines and don't worry about proofreading.

Every day I do a double-take when I see some of the misspellings in the news headlines. Like this:

Fuel fued to fire up Ricciardo in Malaysia

Fuel fued?

They meant fuel feud, of course.

Here's The Rest Of The Article

Re: Gigantic Sea Troll Found!

boris1gary — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:12:59 GMT

Not a gigantic Sea Troll but still interesting.

http://www.livescience.com/44345-missing-fossil-reveals-giant-sea-turtle.html

Missing Half of Bone Reveals Prehistoric Sea Giant

Now that paleontologists have assembled a complete humerus bone from the sea turtle Atlantocheyls mortoni, they have more information about the species and its overall size. Based on the complete limb, the researchers calculated the animal's overall size to be about 10 feet from tip to tail, making it one of the largest sea turtles ever known.