Why the Most Successful Creature in Earth’s History Went Extinct
Few creatures have ever dominated Earth for as long as the trilobites. For nearly two hundred seventy million years, these armored marine arthropods survived shifting continents, changing oceans, multiple mass extinctions, and some of the most dramatic transformations in our planet's history.
This journey follows the complete story of trilobites, from their explosive rise during the Cambrian Period to their final disappearance during the Great Dying at the end of the Permian. Along the way, we explore their extraordinary crystal eyes, their surprising mating behaviors, their role as ecosystem…
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