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Ocean vents birthplace of

Life on earth our warm womb

Formation of proteins

Spurs forward new epoch

Cells exist primal

Nature’s laws govern

Microbes thrive or die

In this cruel harsh world

Divergent from pattern

Exploring archetypes

Untouched and unbeknownst

Evolving adapting

Arthropods arise

Predators arms race

To survive they must

Eat fuck kill eat fuck...kill

Molting

Crustacea hunt now

Sever their prey

Blood runs in water

Foul carnage

Anomalacaris rips

And feeds

The Cambrian Explosion, birthing progenitors of body plans and ecological function

To think, the beginnings, were so humble - yet here we stand

Slurry of chemicals, hydrothermal vents, spawning forth replicating strands

Oceanic Womb, darkness vast, but amidst it all, life rises forth

Backbone support

Strength harnessed

Jaws crushing

Prey processed

Fish evolve

Primal hidden beauty and rawness of life and death | stories told in ancient fossils in which we reminisce

Monstrous armoured placoderms lurked in the high seas | I regret, they joined ranks of extinct mysteries