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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:41:54 AM No.5013821
Gigoutella mauretanica Abderrazak El Albani art trilobite water prehistoric extinct animal
Gigoutella mauretanica Abderrazak El Albani art trilobite water prehistoric extinct animal
md5: b13a6fc3626b86c6c72f6f467b484f9e🔍
>22,000 species
>lived for over 270,000,000 years
>predator-resistant exoskeleton
>survived not one, but two mass-extinction events
>left behind at least billions of immaculately preserved fossils so we write about their legacy
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:58:05 AM No.5013834
>>5013821 (OP)
They’re cool
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:45:19 AM No.5013848
nautiloids are better
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 10:28:43 AM No.5013862
trilo
trilo
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>>5013821 (OP)
Prehistoric invertebrates were at an all time high in this era
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:01:32 PM No.5013874
>>5013821 (OP)
looks delicious
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:28:52 PM No.5013916
20220221-0816
20220221-0816
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whoreshoe crabs?
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:30:45 PM No.5014075
>>5013821 (OP)
>>survived not one, but two mass-extinction events
Why not a third one? Why did they give up?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:18:15 AM No.5014161
>>5014075
To let others have a chance.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:59:29 AM No.5014407
>>5013848
Literally the worst marine invertebrate. Worms are better
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:56:19 AM No.5015185
I find it very hard to believe there isn't a remote population of them surviving somewhere we haven't seen yet. Populations like that undergo extreme diversification, at least ONE had to be an extremophile

For all we know there's a tiny species of them surviving in some deep cave system
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:11:02 AM No.5015221
>>5013821 (OP)
>survived not one, but two mass-extinction events
But did they survive them all? If not they’re shitters plain and simple.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:53:23 AM No.5015237
>>5015185
You’re not wrong. Plus we keep finding living fossils that we thought were long extinct. Wollemi pine, Coelacanth, Dawn redwood, and a whole bunch of other examples were all thought to be long gone and were known exclusively through fossils until their rediscovery. So. I really hope we find one.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 3:00:56 PM No.5015296
imagine finding a hyperspecialized trilobite that's the size of your pinky and lives exclusively in and around brine pools in a single region in the world
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:05:21 PM No.5015343
>>5015296
I would name him Jim.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:23:16 PM No.5015350
>>5015296
Imagine eating all of them
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:01:36 PM No.5015367
>>5014407
kill yourself
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:34:35 AM No.5015558
>>5015350
you're gonna get hyperAIDS nigga
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:32:00 AM No.5015573
>>5015367
Eat a bag of dicks and choke little man
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 2:17:33 PM No.5016814
>>5013821 (OP)
Artwork like this is so cooool.
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 2:59:45 PM No.5016827
>>5014407
fuck you you stupid worthless piece of shit
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 3:17:28 PM No.5016840
>>5014161
How very humble of them
Anonymous
7/15/2025, 5:04:29 PM No.5016867
>>5013821 (OP)
We're better. Since we survived all the mass extinctions and these guys bit the dust millions of years ago. Hell even horseshoe crabs would be superior. They've been around almost just as long.