Bethany Brookshire: Look at this beauty. This glory. This fabulous ancient fossil cockroach of the sea. www.sciencenews.org/article/stun... They chewed food along the length of their whole bodies before passing it up to a tiny little mouth! Inspirational.

Look at this beauty. This glory. This fabulous ancient fossil cockroach of the sea. www.sciencenews.org/article/stun... They chewed food along the length of their whole bodies before passing it up to a tiny little mouth! Inspirational.

Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen beforewww.sciencenews.org Well-preserved fossils from Morocco help paleontologists understand the weird way trilobites ate and perhaps why these iconic animals went extinct.

here's one of my favorite trilobite fossils - you can see where it got chomped by a predator, and survived! (from the Houston Museum of Natural Science)

In case @flyingtrilobite.com missed this

I am GLOWING that people keep sending me this story. Thanks Robin!

I'm glad I scrolled down to check if you showed up on the comments, you were about to get another one lol

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attn: @girlgenius.bsky.social

I'm going to start my whole body chewing journey today!

(5 hours later) centipedes share a ancestor with us so in some wa….. (crowd rioting) me: this is lucid dreaming? i have control of this? centipede butler: yes sir just ask for more centipedes at any time sir

Wow I strongly support these.

Wowzers!!

first sea scorpions now sea roaches......... why dont yall just throw mosquitoes in there and make prehistoric oceans MORE awful (i kid, this is REALLY COOL, and some of my favorite fossils are oceanic!)

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