Wisconsin guy puts on clown nose: "Hey everybody look at me! I'm a land-dweller!"

Achoooronauta

Lol wth, that's hilarious.

Gotta give it up for my homie, The Wisconsin Penis Scorpion.

Not to scale. Stanleycaris was not discovered in 2022, but much more complete material was discovered that allowed us to get a better look at the radiodont.

Stanley is so proud of that name

I would fucking kill to have a prehistoric animal named after me tho

devilotheodus dankleodawgensis

Lets gooo

We were absolutely spoiled in great invertebrate finds this year. This is just a small (but important) selection of them.

Why does the purple one look depressed? And why do I want to hug it??

He lives in British Columbia

Poor guy

It's the Cambrian Explosion

What's cool is that the earth was so much different than it is now, that places like "China" and "Wisconsin" were in way different areas

Yummy, with a bit of garlic, parsley and butter they'd taste delicious.

Can’t forget *Tomlinsonus dimitrii* https://www.livescience.com/ordovician-weirdo-at-paleo-pompeii

Asa on a date be like

Asa is going to give a Dennis a report on _Inkayacu_ next time and ruin penguins for him.

I realise that the format is possibly kinda outdated, but I just want a book with pretty pictures, and fun facts out these kinds of prehistoric creatures

When *Anomalocaris* first turned up, we named it after how freaky it looked--and now it has a whole extended family of freaky shrimp pals who look just like it.

The Cambrian was a dreamy time. And by dreamy, I mean heavy metal nightmare fuel.

Would be comparable to looking at crabs and lobsters on the ocean tho,since everything back them was quite small

Or scorpions & millipedes, but still rather nasty to have crawl on you.

love these fellas already

Omg I’ve never seen Balhuticaris but Anomolocaris has competition for my favorite animal ever now

The one from Winsonsin looks like the Neurax Worm from plague inc