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>>I saw your upload of the Burgess Shale organism. Which other creatures are you working on? << I've got my sights on Marella ("lace crab"), Yohoia, Opabinia, Dinomischus, Aysheaia, Sidneyia, Leanchoilia and Anomalocaris. I'm working my way up through the simple (to model) to the more complex but most of my problem is obtaining clear drawings of recreations, esp. in plan & elevation form. Uh-oh. I think that last sentance gave me away <g>. I work as an architectural modeller and the Burgess animals give me a chance to work on things that don't have 90 degree angles or flat planes. I live in Toronto, not far from the Royal Ontario Museum, which has done a lot of work on the Burgess Shale. In fact, that was where I first saw the fossils and a slightly nightmarish painting of an artists recreation of the fauna. I'm thinking of contacting them to see if I could get some monographs and if they'd even be interested in my work. >>I bet Gould et al would *love* to see videos of these creatures.<< I'd be interested in finding out what he thought of them. I am doing some animations but as I'm not trained in biology or paleontology I'm just guessing at the way the creatures would move. I've spent some time staring at fish tanks <g>. I'd love to get some idea of what Gould and others thought of colouring, movement, etc. I'll keep uploading Burgess Critters as I build them but as this is done in my dwindling spare time, they may evolve slowly <g,d&r>. Bruce Meikle