Anomalocaris was a large Cambrian radiodont predator, commonly estimated at a few tens of centimeters long, making it one of the earliest known apex predators in marine ecosystems.  It had spiny grasping appendages and a ring shaped mouth with hard plates. The long-standing idea that it crushed trilobites has been challenged, and recent studies suggest it likely preferred softer prey, with its mouthparts not well suited to routinely breaking heavily mineralized shells.  Trilobites were diverse
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Anomalocaris was a large Cambrian radiodont predator, commonly estimated at a few tens of centimeters long, making it one of the earliest known apex predators in marine ecosystems.  It had spiny grasping appendages and a ring shaped mouth with hard plates. The long-standing idea that it crushed trilobites has been challenged, and recent studies suggest it likely preferred softer prey, with its mouthparts not well suited to routinely breaking heavily mineralized shells.  Trilobites were diverse
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