Comments on: A Trilobite, This Time With Wings http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/05/a-trilobite-this-time-with-wings/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Glendon Mellow http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/05/a-trilobite-this-time-with-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-8867 Glendon Mellow Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:57:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/05/a-trilobite-this-time-with-wings/#comment-8867 My 6 year old nephew asked me the same thing recently. "Why do you like trilobites so much?" I think as a visual artist, the first creatures (so far) in the fossil record to have eyes is pretty cool. Mainly, there were so many, and their body plans look terrific seen top-down. It's a very emblematic shape. My 6 year old nephew asked me the same thing recently. “Why do you like trilobites so much?”

I think as a visual artist, the first creatures (so far) in the fossil record to have eyes is pretty cool. Mainly, there were so many, and their body plans look terrific seen top-down. It’s a very emblematic shape.

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