@deeptimevisualised: Scientists thought the fossils were fake. But Opabinia was real: a bizarre animal that swam through Earth’s oceans over 500 million years ago. Fossils from the Burgess Shale revealed a creature with five eyes, swimming flaps, and a clawed feeding arm unlike anything alive today. The deeper scientists studied Cambrian life… the stranger Earth’s past became. #Opabinia #Cambrian #PrehistoricLife #Paleontology #AncientEarth