It's been 2 month since the human incident Carlos was still watching over the reef and devouring fish curious he ate an Cephalaspis it didn't provide much substance but still food meanwhile the anomalocaris babies were just an week away from hatching meanwhile an migration event was going on an massive group of spiny crabs were passing through on their way back to the deep Pacific Ocean and a large group over 280 shoe crabs Strong were Mixed in as well for unknown reasons some spiny crabs like to live in shallow water and the horse shoe crabs came to neither eggs and live out the rest of their lives.
Anomalocaris was prowling Along the seafloor and because spiny crabs were smaller then anomalocaris they were considered potential prey as in the prehistoric oceans where it was The top dog if you were the biggest thing around everything was on your menu the male anomalocaris approached an spiny crab and using its grabbers wrapped up the crab as it struggled it pulled the spiny crab into its mouth and started breaking away at the shell as soon as The shell was broken open the crabs stopped struggling as it insides were being eaten.
Every time it had twitched anomalocaris did something extremely unexpected they proceeded to thrash the crab around shaking up its senses apparently the neurons in their secondary brain were firing on all cylinders currently as the anomalocaris ate the crab he proceeded to eat another one and another one soon the other anomalocaris joined in suddenly it was an feast of crusteans The crabs didn't know with these new predators were but did what they do they scattered some of them took to defending their softer shelled brothers and sisters the horse shoe crabs continued on their journey and because of that were the easiest to devour and catch other spiny crabs ran some buried themselves in the sand but majority of them kept on going ignoring the panic.
Meanwhile Carlos got A set of new notifications
A.R.S:"anomalocaris has discovered spiny crabs and horse shoe crabs as new prey items
Anomalocaris has 50,000 neurons and learnt the simple form of spiny crab migration paths and greater surrounding awareness
Myllokunmingia have found leftover crab shells with meat still inside and have developed a taste for crusteans and has Potential to develop crab or shell cracking teeth"
Carlos was extremely surprised he didn't expect them to excel this fast then again the game of evolution was a very funny thing some of earth's weakest creatures became some of the strongest while the strongest became some of the weakest Carlos also decided to take advantage of this as he got in front of the migration open his jaw and by dragging his lower jaw across the sand his mouth wide-open he scooped up multiple crabs before slamming his jaw shut around them breaking them apart and eating the flesh.
As he continued running assaults on the crabs causing more of them to scatter and hide Carlos though with the help of the second brain anomalocaris could eventually have a maximum capacity of 60,000 to 72,000 neurons in its brain Not enough for it to learn really world changing stuff may be a little bit of pack behavior or assembling an spawning grounds as the assault on the migration an anomalocaris wondered to far off as it started sifting through the sand for hiding crabs it disturbed one of the first contenders it would meet on its journey for survival.
As the anomalocaris brushed against some thing immediately a stingray lashed out and bit onto anomalocaris as it struggled The armored shell it weird I was being cracked open like it and cracked open crustacean shells before And as for the stingray it was welcoming the new taste constantly producing a Crushin by force shattering the shell open piece by piece by piece the other anomalocaris watched due to their brains they register the stingray is a moderate threat but continued about their lives as stingray has taken his first victim before gliding across the sand while eating.
A.R.S:"anomalocaris have registered the stingray as an predator and mild concern
Sting ray has discovered the taste of anomalocaris and has become interested"
Carlos didn't expect it but honestly he should've it's a new ocean they should've known better it's not that easy to prob The sand and get what you want careful nowadays there's sharks stingrays the occasional mantis shrimp there isn't as much leeway as there was better than when the only things that existed Under The sand were horse shoe crabs and trilobites But what was evolution Best known for was adaptation soon they would've doubt they would thrive and maybe just maybe become Apexes once again.
1 week later The migration has since gone and Spiny cramps that I've taken refuge in the reef and deep in the sand to no longer fine what Path they are supposed to be on as their friends have since gone they started to believe the new shallow waters was their place of migration females with unplanted eggs tend to their young speaking of eggs in general the female anomalocaris rose up into the current and started convulsing pushing her young out of their eggs 10,000 future anomalocaris swept into the ocean currents for an new cycle to begin the remaining adult anomalocaris would survive long enough to spawn another time or two before death of old age.