article_snippet: Like modern-day whales, The 6.5ft (two-metre) prehistoric creature filtered seawater to trap tiny particles of food, using spine-covered 'limbs' on The 6.5ft (two-metre) prehistoric creature head.
article_snippet: Like modern-day whales, it filtered seawater to trap tiny particles of food, using spine-covered 'limbs' on it .
article_snippet: While filter-feeding is probably one of the oldest ways for animals to find food, previous filter-feeders were smaller, and usually attached to the sea-floor. '
article_snippet: While filter-feeding is probably one of the oldest ways for animals to find food, previous filter-feeders were smaller, and usually attached to the sea-floor.'
article_snippet: The large size of this filter feeder suggests that the anomalocaridids were well-adapted to take advantage of a presumably rich source of plankton during the Ordovician period, said the authors.
highlights_snippet: Like modern-day whales, it filtered seawater to trap tiny particles of food .
  
highlights_snippet: Fossils suggest it caught food using spine-covered 'limbs' on it head .
  