Fossilized marine animals

Usage examples of trilobites.

Although he had barely a high school education and was self taught in the sciences, Walcott became a leading authority on trilobites and was the first person to establish that trilobites were arthropods, the group that includes modern insects and crustaceans.

Or the future scientists could be viewing, oh, australopithecines or trilobites or the big asteroid crash.

Tom, like his father before him, has a family practice in Orangetown, a quick ten minutes away, but he spends at least a third of his time working on trilobite research, his hobby, his avocation, he would tell you in a kind of winking way so that you understand trilobites are his real work.

Ugly but adaptable creatures, trilobites, and obliging with their remains.

But it is known that most trilobites developed huge and complex eyes on the sides of their slick heads.

The blind trilobites were lightened of their biological load, their marvellous ophthalmic radar, and they thrived in the darkness.

He has all but deserted his trilobites for his current research on stress and trauma.

Sitting around fishing for trilobites and discussing the relative merits of Kerensky and Malenkov?

Dozens of trilobites were arrayed around it, ranging in size from the inch-long kind to the three-footers with their baroquely involuted exoskeletons.

Barrett saw that the dingy was overflowing with the haul, and Hahn, coming into the camp with his arms full of gaffed trilobites looked sunburned and pleased.

Gregor grunted and left the relatively rugged trilobites to fend for themselves in the netting and creels while he pitched in to deal with the small shelly fauna.

She had seen it in the plodding but graceful tread of the dinosaurs, in the skittering of trilobites in the warm shallows of Cambrian seas, in the flutter of ancient birds too new to their wings to even dream of flight.