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Radiodonta: The Largest and Earliest Known Predator of the Cambrian Era

January 13, 2021 Jennifer and Amber Season 2 Episode 2
Better Than Human
Radiodonta: The Largest and Earliest Known Predator of the Cambrian Era
Show Notes

Radiodonta is an order of stem-group arthropods, which included the earliest known predators. Radiodonta were successful worldwide during the Cambrian period, and are ancient relatives to spiders, insects, and crustaceans. (Though, no living relatives exist). 

First, however, let's talk about what happened last Wednesday. Turns out Trump’s rioters were mostly sad men still living with their mothers, and Trump was upset that they were ‘low-class’.  A lot of the rioters believed in “QAnon”, and if you say what they believe in out loud, you’ll realize how stupid this conspiracy theory actually is. 

But, good news everyone, Trump is banned from Twitter! That means one less crazy person ranting on Twitter. 

Before you start to learn about Radiodonta, Google them. They are some weird Pokémon-looking animals. Their name, Radiodonta, comes from the radial arrangement of tooth plates (oral cone) surrounding the mouth, so they are literally named after their mouths. Radiodonta have an interesting history of discovery, and it wasn’t until recently that they were recognized as their own group. They also have some weird frontal appendages that makes each species unique. 

Radiodonta were recently in the news due to new research that suggests they were likely to have had excellent vision that was way more advance then scientists originally thought possible at the time. 

Listen now to learn more about this fascinating group of ancient creatures. 

(this is the paper about their cool eyes https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/49/eabc6721)

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