Why does the Cambrian Explosion look like a psychedelic fever dream? - There is even a creature called Hallucigenia.

[Alex Hogendorp]

I mean, just look at them?

 

[Character from a movie]

That was God's Spore phase.

 

[draggs]

One theory is that evolution was trying out all kinds of weird forms of complex animal life before the basic bilateral symmetry near all animals have today won out

 

[User names must be unique]

The bipedal hairless ape has opinions on what a weird animal looks like?

all those things are pretty normal looking, if any animal stands out as a psychedelic fever dream it is humans.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I know that feeling.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

I bet they were all tasty.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

One theory is that evolution was trying out all kinds of weird forms of complex animal life before the basic bilateral symmetry near all animals have today won out

Evolution was just goofing around before it locked in and went symmetry mode is what you're saying?

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

One theory is that evolution was trying out all kinds of weird forms of complex animal life before the basic bilateral symmetry near all animals have today won out

A lot of ediacaran animals were also bilateral too you know. I find it weird that many look like plants but are called animals.