Shadows of the Apt

Because, every so often, I feel I should show that my geekery goes beyond RPGs or fantasy literature.
There are plenty of links on this, within the somewhat clannish corridors of palaeontology, but I choose for reference this one.
To declare, in tones of astonished wonder, "a Devonian anomalocarid!" is unlikely to prompt any great response, apart perhaps from "gesundheit". […]