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eTrilobite Blog
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A blog for musings on paleontology, especially trilobites.
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Buffon, Histoire naturelle, and the Birth of Evolution
Darwin’s Origin of Species was a brilliant work, but it didn’t arrive out of the blue. Several generations of biologists had been hinting at evolution, including Darwin’s own grandfather, but had been unable to come up with a natura...
The Culmination of Paleontological Thought.
I had intended to post something informative today, but these videos are just too revolutionary to be ignored. Or something. This is the epic tale of a two dinosaurs and a pig, told over the course of a number of youtube videos. I present here only a...
Walcott’s Quarry #3: Shoehorning
We Need More Science Movies!
Does anyone besides me feel like science, in almost all its forms, is falling by the wayside? It’s not that research isn’t progressing, but I do fear for the next generation of scientists. In western countries we are dealing with huge pub...
Shedding Light on the Cambrian Ecosystem.
Scientists studying the Burgess and Chengjiang fossil formations have discovered remarkable structural similarities between Cambrian and modern food webs. It seems that the structure of the modern food web was quite well developed during the Cambrian...

