Hey, I just saw you sitting over in Great Debates and I wanted to extend a personal welcome. Anyone who names themselves after one of the coolest creatures to come out of the Burgess Shale deserves a shout out.
So welcome to the SDMB! I’d love to hear a little bit about yourself - you said English was your second language - where are you from? Odds are we’ve got someone in here who speaks your native tongue.
Just to add on, here are two of the Burgess Shale denizens:
Hallucigenia (first two pictures)
Darn! I came in here hoping that you were selling street corner Paleozoic fauna, and all I find is that you’re trying to attract somebody’s attention.
Cool SDMB name, though.
My personal favorite Burgess critter is Anomalacaris, but I have to admit Hallucigenia has a much cooler name. (Incidently, the most recent research indicates the latter’s spikes go on top, not below as the earlier reconstructions had it.)
Heck with Jurassic Park, I wanna get some Wiwaxia DNA and sell them as pets. That would be pretty cool, Cal.
Wiwaxia hasn’t come around, though. I’ll bump this once just to see if it will catch his/her attention, then let it sink and become fossilized in the muck of antiquity, hopefully to be preserved and found aeons hence…