Illustration of anomalocaris. This animal, whose name means 'abnormal shrimp', was an ancient marine arthropod, a group that includes modern-day insec

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Illustration of anomalocaris. This animal, whose name means 'abnormal shrimp', was an ancient marine arthropod, a group that includes modern-day insects, crustaceans and arachnids. It was probably a predator, about 1m long, which was a giant for its time period. It may have fed on trilobites. It lived in the seas of the Cambrian period, 515 million years ago.

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Photo credit: © MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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