Roughly 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed 90 percent of the planet's species. Fewer than 5 percent of the animal species in the world ocean survived this Great Dying.
Nothing lasts forever, but the Trilobites are the world champions for surviving the longest on earth. Some researchers blame the rise of atmospheric CO2 for the Late Permian Extinction. They blame some sort of manmade climate change for intense global warming that led, inevitably, to Skynet and the rise of the Machines!
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Little known today, trilobites...
Also little known today, but I had a trilobite doorstop that I "liberated" from a Turkish fossil field when I was in junior high, in Ankara, Turkey. The thing weighed at least 20 pounds and was almost a foot long. It was a heavy sucker, which made it a perfect doorstop. I don't feel bad about taking the fossil, coz yer link sez the things are "plentiful." Guilt assuaged.
I do miss the trilobites, but am glad that they were not a failure. Regarding the great Permian die off,though, how did Bush do that?
If it weren't for fossils there wouldn't be no trilobites today.
Bushmaster of space and time. I'll have to work out a way to post a picture of a Bushmaster.
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