And no, Creatards..."Adam and Eve" Did Not Ride Them!

[Anomalocaris]

Residual proteins recovered from fossil t-Rex suggests T. rex steak would taste a lot like chicken.

I'm sick of everything tasting like chicken. Why can't it taste like crab or lamb chops,for there ain't no god's sake?

The chance that this critter, 7 feet long, might taste like crab is getting better and better with each new discovery about it's clad:



It use to be thought the anamalocaris was a unique evolutionary experiment, not closely related to anything in the world today.  Later it became clear it was related to Arthropods, but we weren't sure how closely and in what way.  We thought it might be a sister group of Arthropods, having shared a very recent common ancester with Arthropods, but is not quite an arthropod itself.  But recent discoveries indicates it was an arthropod, and probably more closely related to crabs and lobsters than other Arthropods.

But unlike lobsters and crabs, it didn't have a hard mineralized shell.   It had soft, leathery body, and it swam with a manta ray like motion of flaps on either side of its body.   What clinched it being a real, but very strange arthropod with the discovery it had not one, as illustrated here, but two sets of flaps per body segment.  

So here you go, a 100 lb, 7 foot long ancient shell-less lobster.  Unlike lobsters and crabs, anamalocaris was a agile and proficient swimmer, probably able to easily catch any human swimmer.

So it might be human steak it is eating, not anamalocaris steak we'd be eating.

Okay that's just to scare you,  it's mouth is too small to take big chunks out of you like a shark.  at most it can only take golf ball sized plugs of flesh from you when it catches you.