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(DIR) Post #AmwVmO18QO14sBxBLc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:32:53Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AmwW1KHSbFHvcyiIM4 by tx_tartan@deacon.social
2024-10-12T21:35:33Z
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@futurebird Have you seen Jurassic Park? We know how this story ends. š
(DIR) Post #AmwW81acUUCRgZrxKq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:36:49Z
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Don't talk to me about horseshoe crabs. It's NOT the same at all. OK?
(DIR) Post #AmwWAhEicVJbQitoFE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:37:19Z
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@tx_tartan The dinosaur people have BIRDS.
(DIR) Post #AmwWLB9YFHOt6vTrQu by hbons@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T21:39:10Z
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@futurebird since itās such a successful design Iām sure weāll find them on exoplanets. :)
(DIR) Post #AmwWWkwFXJNpHamNNo by regehr@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T21:41:15Z
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@futurebird after finding some trilobite fossils in Utah when my kids were little I got sort of obsessed and read a few books about them. so interesting!!!
(DIR) Post #AmwWXqvYktEg98ymkS by tkinias@historians.social
2024-10-12T21:41:25Z
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@futurebird personally, I want to see a Hallucigenia IRL
(DIR) Post #AmwWbBJ5RQSODlZU1I by Gobabu@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T21:41:59Z
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@futurebird No horseshoe crab. Kay. How about triops and lepidurus ?(just joking)
(DIR) Post #AmwWe5XrJtE5Dhrp2G by drahardja@sfba.social
2024-10-12T21:42:35Z
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@futurebird They were so damn successful I wouldnāt be surprised if we found a distant descendant one day, somewhere, living in an ocean corner we havenāt discovered.
(DIR) Post #AmwWvvVzLmtbKBUwfg by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-12T21:45:47Z
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@futurebird Bathynomus giganteus is not good enough?
(DIR) Post #AmwX3rwwUQnIaFtPzU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:47:16Z
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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!
(DIR) Post #AmwX73v0RktSZaVfSi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:47:52Z
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@michael_w_busch That's a giant woodlouse!
(DIR) Post #AmwXXeiGGhVQDaEH2G by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T21:52:37Z
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@futurebird "āTrilobites and horseshoe crabs are not particularly closely related to each other, but they share a similar overall organization, and they live in similar marine environments. Itās a little bit like how a bat can fly and a bumblebee can fly."Still, prehistoric and cool, though not the same. :)https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/News/pr/2022/22-27.aspx
(DIR) Post #AmwXaTohEjdRIDaNrU by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T21:53:09Z
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@futurebird Horseshoe crabs might be someone else's trilobites, 300 million years from now.
(DIR) Post #AmwXfyNX2HWRWiV0Ma by Dtl@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T21:54:08Z
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@futurebird I'm annoyed I was born 490 million years too late to have a pet anomalocaris.
(DIR) Post #AmwXlQmiqiVR4istYO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T21:55:08Z
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@davefischer What the heck is this from??? OMG
(DIR) Post #AmwY0HKuGGUw79xBZ2 by TeflonTrout@beige.party
2024-10-12T21:57:48Z
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@futurebird Mating Aggregations sounds like a song title you'd find in a badass TTRPG playlist
(DIR) Post #AmwYMqxwTJz4zLyc8e by Okanogen@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T22:01:53Z
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@futurebird Convergent evolution is fascinating.
(DIR) Post #AmwYlnvGvI34n3cpFo by MostlyTato@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T22:06:23Z
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@futurebird Amazing creatures. I remember drawing them for my geology degree.
(DIR) Post #AmwZiJZPPuFpjrIarw by seawall@mastodon.nz
2024-10-12T22:16:57Z
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@futurebird These are the kind of robots we need
(DIR) Post #AmwZoNyDyBW77hnika by sofia@chaos.social
2024-10-12T22:18:03Z
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@futurebird i'be been saying it for years! (once)https://chaos.social/@sofia/104359622100807249
(DIR) Post #AmwauDrEa73bS0sWnI by WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online
2024-10-12T22:30:19Z
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@futurebird What about rolliepollies?
(DIR) Post #AmwcWfaw0IaUQz9S3E by UncivilServant@med-mastodon.com
2024-10-12T22:48:28Z
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@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!
(DIR) Post #AmwczFlr5yDMjztC5Y by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2024-10-12T22:53:39Z
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@futurebird MYlobites: The Story of One Mad Scientist and Her Dream <3(coming 2026 to a theatre near you :D )
(DIR) Post #AmwdZ29dCN86w24V5E by artemesia@techhub.social
2024-10-12T23:00:06Z
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@futurebird Heh, I have a triolbite fossil on my windowsill. If it scuttles it's doing it very slowly.
(DIR) Post #AmwdoGdjck7OClPs48 by quinsibell@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T23:02:52Z
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@futurebird I've got a friend who was devastated to learn humans didn't evolve from trilobites.
(DIR) Post #AmweDi84YYPYhWjrnM by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T23:07:29Z
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@futurebird trilobites, radiodonts, eurypterids, opabiniids, tullimonstrum, the polyphyletic orthocones ... so many wonderful Paleozoic creatures, of which there is no like today ... : (
(DIR) Post #AmwffkFsLVNbMBJuvw by runoutgroover@mastodon.nz
2024-10-12T23:23:43Z
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@futurebird I feel the same. Also pterosaurs.
(DIR) Post #AmwgDixdfDjbBlzbX6 by marc_w@union.place
2024-10-12T23:29:53Z
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@futurebird Well, there were trillions of them hanging around for 269 million years, so I expect they did pretty much everything it was physically possible for them to do!
(DIR) Post #Amwj6WMkORKdxfzg9Y by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2024-10-13T00:02:11Z
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@futurebird arenāt Horseshoe Crabs about as close as we can get ?
(DIR) Post #AmwnuOxqaON3IlO4yu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T00:56:03Z
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@grumpasaurus @michael_w_busch aw shucks... I know, but... thank you for saying so. I try not to brag about it.
(DIR) Post #Amwo03QJaT6eEPOkwi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T00:57:02Z
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@the_gneech If you are longing for T-Rex does a frog help?
(DIR) Post #AmwpCeEsdL3NqGcQjY by golgaloth@writing.exchange
2024-10-13T01:10:31Z
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@futurebird Give me a good Ankylosaur. The world needs more spikey meat tanks.
(DIR) Post #AmwpjMXRSsu4V6ttDs by mister_shade02X2@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:16:27Z
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@futurebird Itās my understanding they will have repopulated themselves in the future shown in the original Star Trek series š
(DIR) Post #AmwpwrX1XmtqOC8sHA by cdunnpasadena@sfba.social
2024-10-13T01:18:54Z
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@futurebird Kind of an invasive speciesā¦
(DIR) Post #Amwq79W1XFBj3qa5IG by jamesbarnes@sfba.social
2024-10-13T01:20:36Z
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@futurebird At last I feel seen
(DIR) Post #Amwr5JsK9BKKZ9hYuG by whatsyouracagain@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:30:57Z
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@golgaloth @futurebird Iād take a glyptodont if the budget couldnāt pull off ankylosaurs.
(DIR) Post #Amwr88pteAMpCIuav2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:32:09Z
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@whatsyouracagain @golgaloth 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.
(DIR) Post #AmwrMHaHuxyoNrM0qe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:34:43Z
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@n_dimension But there aren't three sections! It's not the same ... :(
(DIR) Post #AmwrNQ2jxAKcuNCium by whatsyouracagain@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:34:48Z
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@futurebird @golgaloth think the saying goes āWe donāt carry ankylosaurs, gyptodont ok?ā
(DIR) Post #AmwrS7q53zhrtfWjiq by BunRab@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:35:32Z
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@futurebird @whatsyouracagain @golgaloth I'd settle for a glyptodont.
(DIR) Post #AmwrZq5Wwc5HA0QpAO by Moss@beige.party
2024-10-13T01:37:07Z
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@futurebird @whatsyouracagain @golgaloth Ah no itās ānever trust a Sicilian with a glyptodontā
(DIR) Post #AmwsDRc1Mfn8phVw9I by gannet@wandering.shop
2024-10-13T01:43:52Z
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@mdhughes @futurebird Opabinia, cutie of the sea!
(DIR) Post #AmwsHw3c732uPmYtkm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:44:54Z
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@gannet @mdhughes I keep thinking "Opa Gangnum Style" when I see that one since my brain has zero filters.
(DIR) Post #AmwswV7p9Nmal8sGzA by Mikal@sfba.social
2024-10-13T01:52:25Z
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@futurebird When I first saw tadpole shrimp in a desert water hole, I was sure that somehow fossilized trilobites had become reanimated. (Not really, but I have never seen anything like them and had no idea they existed.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops_longicaudatus
(DIR) Post #AmwtaZuclslfBooJuq by Wes_Montage@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:59:41Z
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@futurebird Your post made me immediately think of this music video, which I viewed on MTV when it was first released. I think it's brilliant. YMMV.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZ7JBz4aEU
(DIR) Post #AmxJAuFr76mvYlA1gm by pthenq1@mastodon.la
2024-10-13T06:46:19Z
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@futurebird No possible
(DIR) Post #AmxJPiZ4rJcheDDL6G by engravecavedave@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T06:49:02Z
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@futurebird Jurassic Park but solely for trilobites
(DIR) Post #Amy3VNClmb411wPlsu by faassen@fosstodon.org
2024-10-13T15:25:23Z
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@futurebirdI guess some creative remixing of arthropod DNA is in order. Apparently we don't even know whether they are closer to horse shoe crabs/spiders or closer to crustaceans.Easier projects to bring them back may be the invention of a time machine or at least a FTL drive so we can hunt the cosmos for worlds where mysterious ancient aliens having taken samples from Earth, as one does, have seeded them where they still survive. Or intelligent eusocial group of trilobites went themselves.
(DIR) Post #Amy5OLdRQ9PU2ifTHs by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2024-10-13T15:46:37Z
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@futurebird As a child, I was sure that I had discovered living soil trilobites. Well, the adults called them #isopods or woodlice. š Look at this personality: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiesenasselnBTW, do you know this rabbit hole for #trilobites: https://www.trilobites.info/
(DIR) Post #Amy68L3vslcBaTzNtg by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T15:54:57Z
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@futurebird @gannet @mdhughes Opabinia was into Gangnum Style before it was cool.
(DIR) Post #AmyIjaGRWZ2WtpModc by Mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me
2024-10-13T18:16:00.896599Z
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@futurebird i mean ig we got horseshoe crabs still but yeah thatd be cool, imagine if we still had anomalocharis
(DIR) Post #AmyWhgNXDd7mdrfhqK by negative12dollarbill@techhub.social
2024-10-13T20:52:40Z
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@futurebird You want to eat one, right?