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Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They are known the world over because they were everywhere!

This episode was written by Blake de Pastino.

Thanks to Franz Anthony, Julio Lacerda, Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing

Produced for PBS Digital Studios.

References:
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.ph...
https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/trilo...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
http://www.trilobites.info/geotime.htm
http://www.trilobites.info/origins.htm
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5145786/trilob...
https://trilobite94.wordpress.com/tri...
http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology...
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news...
http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticl...
http://www.amnh.org/our-research/pale...
http://www.trilobites.info/lasttrilos...
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibr...

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