#euarthropods — Public Fediverse posts
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Rare #museum specimen reveals new insights into how trilobites curled themselves into a ball
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-rare-museum-specimen-reveals-insights.html#ConvergentEvolution of ventral adaptations for enrolment in #trilobites and extant #euarthropods: Sarah Losso et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2212
"a #trilobite would have had to flex its entire body to allow for rolling, a move that would have allowed the plates to slide past one another, until locking in place."