“Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they’d encounter it while swimming.”

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod – being a joint-legged animal – and not having legs, it’s kind of embarrassing.

However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

I love the water more than anything. I’m not very good at sunbathing – I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just – I don’t know, it feels right.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist.

Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you’re in the process, you’re there.

Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.