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Trilobites were actually active hunters

Adam Khor · 2016-02-16 01:00:33

Or at least some of them were. http://www.livescience.com/53682-trilobites-were-savvy-killers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29

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16-02-2016 2:00am

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Adam Khor

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Or at least some of them were.

http://www.livescience.com/53682-trilobites-were-savvy-killers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29

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#2 19-02-2016 12:42am
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It would be nice to find some of them still living on the abysmal plain.

They had some of the best eyes ever, still trying to find that link that shows that some of them had eyes with a fixed lens that could focus from close in to far away by fancy image processing.

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#3 19-02-2016 2:16pm
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Read Richard Fortey's fascinating book - 'Trilobite!' and it won't be such a surprise.

tac

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