The Trouble With Trilobites

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They are known the world over because they were everywhere! This episode was written by Blake de Pastino. Thanks to Franz Anthony, Julio Lacerda, Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. References: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1279 https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/trilob_fact_sheet.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/ http://www.trilobites.info/geotime.htm http://www.trilobites.info/origins.htm http://io9.gizmodo.com/5145786/trilobites-the-greatest-survivors-in-earths-history https://trilobite94.wordpress.com/trilobites-important-fossil-localities/ http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/courses/greenstein/paleo/trilobites.pdf https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28jan_extinction http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0001653.html http://www.amnh.org/our-research/paleontology/paleontology-faq/trilobite-website/the-trilobite-files/the-last-trilobites http://www.trilobites.info/lasttrilos.htm http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/_0/success_03 Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/