Becoming a Predator Was Hard

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Animals eating other animals seems like a tale as old as time, but it's only almost that old. Predation had to evolve in the Ediacaran period -- so let's look at early almost-predators like Auroralumina, Kimberella, Ikaria, and whatever punched holes in Cloudina. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A, Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   Facebook:   / scishow   #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: Ikaria: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32412... https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/... Kimberella: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/... https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2... Cloudina: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3515782 General: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.00899.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.0... https://doi.org/10.1017/S108933260000... Images: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.gettyimages.com https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publis... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://eurekalert.org/multimedia/928076 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/2/136 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...