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Moroccan Trilobytes

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    Forget about the Cambrian trilobytes; they're boring and look like squashed cockroachs. The Moroccan trilobytes from the Ordivician and Devonian are much sexier, resembling HR Giger sculptures. They even died in super cool action poses, unlike their flat anscestors.

    This David Attenborough episode on the origin of life has a good segment on them:

    http://youtu.be/ZZxv4toLQhg

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    neat. The modern versions are cool too.


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      Originally posted by whag View Post
      Forget about the Cambrian trilobytes; they're boring and look like squashed cockroachs. The Moroccan trilobytes from the Ordivician and Devonian are much sexier, resembling HR Giger sculptures. They even died in super cool action poses, unlike their flat anscestors.

      This David Attenborough episode on the origin of life has a good segment on them:

      http://youtu.be/ZZxv4toLQhg
      The evolution of Trilobites is an interesting subject in size and complexity of shell configuration trying to deal with predators. Judging from the evidences they were part of the diet of most larger preditors.
      Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
      Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
      But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

      go with the flow the river knows . . .

      Frank

      I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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