The Trouble With Trilobites

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Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They’re 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 in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios

References:
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1279
https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/trilob_fact_sheet.pdf
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/
http://www.trilobites.info/geotime.htm
http://www.trilobites.info/origins.htm
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5145786/trilobites-the-greatest-survivors-in-earths-history
https://trilobite94.wordpress.com/trilobites-important-fossil-localities/
http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/courses/greenstein/paleo/trilobites.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28jan_extinction
http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0001653.html
http://www.amnh.org/our-research/paleontology/paleontology-faq/trilobite-website/the-trilobite-files/the-last-trilobites
http://www.trilobites.info/lasttrilos.htm
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/_0/success_03

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