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Chain of trilobites earliest example of mass migration?

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21-12-2016 8:20pm

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Adam Khor

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/science/marching-one-by-one-trilobites-traversed-the-seafloor.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPaleontology&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection

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#2 21-12-2016 9:56pm
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Or maybe a mass mating with a gravid female at the head of the procession with the rest males vying to fertilise the eggs?

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#3 21-12-2016 10:05pm
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Or a conga line

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