#opabinia regalis

[godteri-takk]

Cringetober day 24 🐚Niche intrest!

I love and am really interested in the cambrium explosion! The critters and silly goobers are sooo cute and I'm always happy to learn more about them <<3

[where-is-welsknight]

I sure hope Wels meets the icon, the legend, Opabinia Regalis

Today Welsknight is in a fossil meeting Opabinia Regalis!

Image by me!

-🎨

[the-danger-goose]

Opabina regalis, my beloved

[saturniidae-served-cold]

Me and my mutuals reblogging the same post

[r4v3nzcr0ws]

please watch and subscribe to my youtube channel i need to fees my 89 kids

[angelnumber27]

Do y’all know about these guys??

They’re called Opabinia Regalis and they lived during the Cambrian period

[newlabdakos]

Opabinia regalis

(temporal range: 508 mio. years ago)

[text from the Wikipedia article, see also link above]

Opabinia regalis is an extinct, stem group arthropod found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago) of British Columbia.[1] Opabinia was a soft-bodied animal, measuring up to 7 cm in body length, and its segmented trunk had flaps along the sides and a fan-shaped tail. The head shows unusual features: five eyes, a mouth under the head and facing backwards, and a clawed proboscis that probably passed food to the mouth. Opabinia probably lived on the seafloor, using the proboscis to seek out small, soft food.[2] Fewer than twenty good specimens have been described; 3 specimens of Opabinia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they constitute less than 0.1% of the community.[3]

When the first thorough examination of Opabinia in 1975 revealed its unusual features, it was thought to be unrelated to any known phylum,[4] or perhaps a relative of arthropod and annelid ancestors.[2] However, later studies since late 1990s consistently support its affinity as a member of basal arthropods, alongside the closely-related radiodonts (Anomalocaris and relatives) and gilled lobopodians (Kerygmachela and Pambdelurion).[5][6][7][8][1][9][10]

In the 1970s, there was an ongoing debate about whether multi-celled animals appeared suddenly during the Early Cambrian, in an event called the Cambrian explosion, or had arisen earlier but without leaving fossils. At first Opabinia was regarded as strong evidence for the "explosive" hypothesis.[4] Later the discovery of a whole series of similar lobopodian animals, some with closer resemblances to arthropods, and the development of the idea of stem groups suggested that the Early Cambrian was a time of relatively fast evolution but one that could be understood without assuming any unique evolutionary processes.

[carbohs-region]

Protobulwark, the Shielded Seer Pokémon!

Type: Dark/Steel

Evolves from Photonia

Protobulwark spends its time hiding in reefs, waiting for a meal to pass in front of it just to nab with its extended claw. The armor on its back both provides defense and hides it from predators looking down from the water column.

[godteri-takk]

OPABINIA <<<<3 REGALIS <<<3 MY BELOVED!!!! SO CUTE!! XD

Tiny little silly opabinia with a beaded trunk-thing, made in June 2022

[cambriandude]

Everyone's favorite five eyed freak of the cambrian, Opabinia regalis. An animal that's weird even when compared to it's closer relatives.

[azdoine]

early lostbelts: lee harvey oswald fails to assassinate john f. kennedy during his 1963 motorcade. under JFK's direction as the first and only president to serve for more than four terms, the USA overcomes all obstacles during the decades to follow, hoisting the banner of the "Super United States" and ruling the world through a combination of neo-masonic magecraft and economic thought alchemy.

later lostbelts: theia fails to impact the primordial world during the formation of the solar system, and the earth and the moon are never separated from one another. because organic life evolves much more slowly without the stabilizing cycles of the lunar tides, the world is only now in the equivalent of the cambrian explosion; the dominant planetary species is an opabinia regalis analogue which became intelligent when it ate the chloroplasts of the algae of knowledge, alluding to a depiction of the biblical eden in a little-known 2002 type-moon zine of which only 50 copies were ever printed. now the adam ha-rishon leads his tiny primordial arthropod civilization to shepherd the evolution of all life on the planet, using selective breeding in an attempt to recreate the algae of knowledge and life for all creatures in the cosmos to share-

[3584-tropical-fish]

I want a prehistoric animal

Happy Halloween!! You get this fucked up guy (affectionate): Opabinia regalis!!

Discovered in the Burgess Shale (a middle Cambrian formation in British Columbia), this species was only 7 cm long! Note the five eyes and weird looking proboscis :)

[godteri-takk]

<<<<3

I still had these doodles laying around, but figured I should colour them with other people being interested in them too!

[ravenekrops]

to Léan, do you go trick or treating? what do you want to dress up as?

"Not really trick or treating but this year school's throwing a Halloween party and dad's helping me build a costume!! i'm gonna be the coolest Opabinia regalis in the entire school!!!"

Spooky Askbox is open!

[warcrimesimulator]

screaming crying throwing up because i will never see a tyrannosaurus rex. i will never see a saber-tooth tiger or a giant ground sloth. i will never see opabinia regalis.

[godteri-takk]

Great post but I'm not too fond of posting art without credit to the artist, so this is Burgess Shale Fauna (1989) by Carel Brest van Kempen, acrylic 15" x 20"

It's used here, used, for example, in a virtual exhibit with art that revolves around evolution and such, in 2013. It's really cool, and if u click the image, it turns into a poster w the creatures simply outlined and numbered. Below you can then read interesting facts about every single critter!

Click on the orange text over the image when in the website to swap back to the original painting .

thinking about Her (the Cambrian explosion)