About 480 million years ago, the seven-foot-long Aegirocassis benmoulae swam about in the sea. The lobster-like sea creature used its flaps and long segmented body to get around. And unlike many of its fellow relatives, it ate plankton.
'It would have dwarfed anything else at the time, being twice as big as the next biggest animal,' says Peter Van Roy, an archeologist at Yale University and a co-author of a study published last Wednesday that contributes entirely new information about Aegirocassis benmoulae.
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