What Was The First Predator On Earth?

Go to https://buyraycon.com/EARTH to get up to 30% off sitewide! Brought to you by Raycon. 00:00 Introduction 11:20 Part 1 - Inventing Predation 25:35 Part 2 - Red Queen 46:24 Part 3 - The First Predator Researched and Written by Leila Battison Edited by James Devonport Audio & Additional Editing by Pete Kelly Narration by David Kelly Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza Image Credits (Via Wikimedia Commons) Intro and Part 1 Z Sun, F Zhao, H Zeng, C Luo, H Van Iten, M Zhu, CC BY 4.0 DBCLS CC BY 4.0 MUSE, CC BY-SA 3.0 Ed Bierman, CC BY 2.0 Budhiargomiko, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ivan Bachev, CC BY 4.0 Dr N B Shridhar, CC BY-SA 4.0 Leonhard Lenz, CC BY-SA 4.0 Panek CC BY 2.5 Gabby8228, CC BY-SA 4.0 Alpha Fold Team, CC BY 4.0 K Stibbe, H Wildschut & P Lugtenburg, CC BY 4.0 KarlGaff, CC BY-SA 4.0 Part 2 Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0 Hythe, The Roughs, 30' Sound Mirror by Helmut Zozmann, CC BY-SA 2.0 Denge Sound Mirrors by Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0 Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0 Bodacea, CC BY-SA 2.0 HCRS Home Labor Page, CC BY-SA 2.0 Ministry of Defence, OGL 3 War Memorial of Korea's public work: (KOGL license Type 1) Callan Carpenter, CC BY 4.0 Leigh Van Valen from (https://entomophily.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/leigh_van_valen.png) NY article: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/us/31valen.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimesscience&pagewanted=all Leigh Van Valen University of Chicago Medical Center, Fair use [email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/linvoyage/ Mike Lewinski CC BY 2.0 JZ85, CC BY 3.0 Deror_avi, CC BY-SA 4.0 Estonian Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 4.0 S Pates, R Lerosey-Aubril, A C. Daley, C Kier, E Bonino, J O Hernández, CC BY 4.0 Fossils by Todd C. Gass, Attribution Graphodatsky, A S; Trifonov, Vladimir A; Stanyon, RoscoeVector: Pixelsquid, CC BY 2.0 Part 3 Anomalocaris by PaleoEquii CC BY-SA 4.0 Opabinia by PaleoEquii, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Fezouata Biota By PaleoEquii - Own work, CC BY 4.0 Amplectobelua by PaleoEquii - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Paul Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0 David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA, CC BY 2.0 Joyofmuseums, CC BY-SA 4.0 Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 DiscoA340, CC BY-SA 4.0 Amphibol, CC BY-SA 4.0 Thad Zajdowicz CC BY 2.0 Lydia Fizz CC BY 2.0 KoprX, CC BY-SA 4.0 Connie Ma CC BY-SA 2.0 Mgiganteus1, CC BY-SA 4.0 JJonahJackalope, CC BY-SA 4.0 T Rex © 2005 David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 ScottRobertAnselmo, CC BY-SA 3.0 Jason M Ramos, CC BY 2.0 Small shelly fauna fossils - [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/11035897.2021.1895303?scroll=top&needAccess=true] Microdictyon fossil by Smith609, CC BY-SA 4.0 Modern day stromatolites by Paul Harrison, CC ASA 3.0 Unported Modern day stromatolites by Vincent Poirier, CC BY-SA 3.0 Cloudina fossil by Nobu Tamura CC BY-SA 4.0 Namacalathus by Cetomedes The trilobite Eoredlichia intermedia by Віщун, CC BY-SA 4.0 Becker-Kerber, B., Pacheco, M.L.A.F., Rudnitzki, I.D. et al., CC BY-SA 4.0 Fossil of Opabinia by Jstuby at English Wikipedia The fossil of Hallucigenia by Michael Brett-Surman Hallucigenia by Jose Manuel Canete, CC BY-SA 4.0 Radiodonta size comparison by Junnn11, CC BY-SA 4.0 Peytoia nathorsti Laggania cambria, anomalocaris canadensis mobility by Junnn11 CC BY-SA 4.0 Velvet worm by Geoff Gallice CC BY 2.0 Peripatus juanensis by Wes Gapp CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthropoda_collage.png CC BY-SA 4.0 Shucaris and Erratus by Prehistorica CM CC BY 4.0 Anomalocaris canadensis by MUSE CC BY-SA 3.0 Anomalocaris Jose Manuel Canete CC BY-SA 4.0 Anomalocaris Canadensis Picture credit: Greg Edgecombe. Trilobite Beds fossils by Smith609 CC BY-SA 3.0 RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0 Thomas Bresson, CC BY 3.0 P Kraft, V Vaškaninová, M Mergl, P Budil, O Fatka & P E. Ahlberg, CC BY 4.0 "Assignment_Houston_One", CC BY-SA 2.5 Flicker, **Biodiversity Heritage Library** Trilobite by Micha L. Rieser, via Wikimedia Commons Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0 Radiodonta brain interpretations By Junnn11 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Protaetic cuprea ignicollis By Dr. Zachi Evenor - CC BY-SA 4.0 By James St. John: (CC BY 2.0) Stromatolites Anomalocaris canadensis mouthpiece, Diorama of a Devonian seafloor - trilobite molt Trilobite Packstone Homotelus bromidensis fossil trilobites By Paul VanDerWerf - HSCrabMating1.jpg CC BY 2.0, Radiodonta Amplectobelua Anomalocaris Aegirocassis Lyrarapax Peytoia Laggania Hurdia By Junnn11 CC BY-SA 4.0 Potin GJ-M and Daley AC (2023) The significance of Anomalocaris and other Radiodonta for understanding paleoecology and evolution during the Cambrian explosion. Front. Earth Sci. Hurdiid Radiodontans by S Pates, AC Daley, B Lieberman CC BY 4.0 Radiodont fauna By Pates S, Lerosey-Aubril R, Daley AC, Kier C, Bonino E, Ortega-Hernández J CC BY 4.0 World map 1942 By Qbox673, CC BY-SA 4.0 Map By Lokal_Profil Anomalacaris by Wiki Thedark85 Aegirocassis NT small By Nobu Tamura CC BY-SA 4.0 Anomalocaris By Mike Beauregard CC BY 2.0