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Everything That's Wrong With The Cambrian Explosion

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Daniel Lavery
Oct 30, 2018
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I hate news articles like this one. “Don’t worry, we made sure to double-check if there were zeppelin-sized, pancake-flat, mushroom-cap-rippled, three-meter-long geometry monsters sliding over the ocean floor that used to rest over what is now your house such a long time ago that it makes your heart dizzy to think about. Look, here’s a picture of its de…

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