How to pronounce“cycloids”in English

It all started with the cycloids, a group of arthropods that lived from the Carboniferous to the Cretaceous era.

The real kicker is that the cycloids -- the ones who first came up with the crab body plan -- died out in the Cretaceous era, at a time when there were real crabs and fake

One hypothesis is that the cycloids got outcompeted -- out-carcinized, out crabbed -- by both the crabs and “crabs” we know today!

It wasn’t until the early Jurassic period, tens of millions years after the first cycloids were around, that the first of what we think of as real crabs -- members of infraorder