Trilobites roamed the seas for 270 million years and NOT ONE of those years overlapped with my lifetime. This is one of the most tragic and unfair facts in all of space and time. WHY.
Not a single stinkin' remnant species. I never will see them scuttle... never see one with a ball of eggs.
We have to bring them back.
That's a giant woodlouse!
@grumpasaurus @michael_w_busch
aw shucks... I know, but... thank you for saying so. I try not to brag about it.
Listen I can't prove this, but I bet trilobites were amusing to watch, lots of crazy leg action and rolling in a ball at the drop of the hat- some could probably dig themselves into the sand in a flash... then the eyes would poke out and look around... and maybe even swimming upside-down holding food items... or getting in fights with each other over the best hiding spot...
Think of all that we've missed & can only guess about!
The busy little legs! The mud structures! Mating aggregations!
What the heck is this from??? OMG
@futurebird *cough* [self promotion] *cough*
That's the most impressive piece of self-promotion I think I've ever run across. 😂
@vikxin @futurebird That's a cross-reference to one of my movies. (Click on "The Story" for a plot synopsis. When I screen it, there's a handout for non-insects in the crowd.)
@futurebird i'be been saying it for years! (once)
@futurebird Richard Fortey mentioned in his book Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution that trilobite eyes can fossilize very well. So well, that he was able to obtain a fossilized quartz trilobite eye so perfectly preserved that he was able to look through the lense.
It's been a while since I read the book, so I can't remember offhand whether it was a single fossilized lense from an eye, or the full compound eye. But he was able to look through a trilobite's eye!
@UncivilServant @futurebird I have seen a crystal trilobite, they have one in Cranbrook, BC, Canada. If you shine a torch through it, it looks incredible
@futurebird MYlobites: The Story of One Mad Scientist and Her Dream <3
(coming 2026 to a theatre near you :D )
Heh, I have a triolbite fossil on my windowsill. If it scuttles it's doing it very slowly.
If you are longing for T-Rex does a frog help?
@futurebird As long as well bring back the original sea kitty (anomalocaris) too!
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/anomalocaris-canadensis-appendages-12065.html
Anomalocaris canadensis -- the iconic 60-cm radiodont from the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale of Canada -- is one of the largest Cambrian animals and is often considered the apex predator of its time.
@futurebird We probably can't time travel, but we have to tri…
Trilobites are good, but I also miss Anomalocaris, Dimetrodon, and Pterosaurs. I'd give anything to see even little pterodactyl flappies, let alone a giant Quetz striking terror into anything it passes over. Eh, birds are fine, but not reptilian enough.
Watch Prehistoric Planet
Listen there is an old saying "never settle for the glyptodont" or maybe I just made that up, but it's a good one I think.
But there aren't three sections! It's not the same ... :(
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