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UCL student Yasemin visited us today to study and photograph some trilobites in our fossil collection. She is looking at variation within the Silurian species Calymene, better known as the 'Dudley Bug'. We have some lovely examples on display and plenty more in store.
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #fossils #paleontology #trilobites
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UCL student Yasemin visited us today to study and photograph some trilobites in our fossil collection. She is looking at variation within the Silurian species Calymene, better known as the 'Dudley Bug'. We have some lovely examples on display and plenty more in store.
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #fossils #paleontology #trilobites
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UCL student Yasemin visited us today to study and photograph some trilobites in our fossil collection. She is looking at variation within the Silurian species Calymene, better known as the 'Dudley Bug'. We have some lovely examples on display and plenty more in store.
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #fossils #paleontology #trilobites
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UCL student Yasemin visited us today to study and photograph some trilobites in our fossil collection. She is looking at variation within the Silurian species Calymene, better known as the 'Dudley Bug'. We have some lovely examples on display and plenty more in store.
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #fossils #paleontology #trilobites
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UCL student Yasemin visited us today to study and photograph some trilobites in our fossil collection. She is looking at variation within the Silurian species Calymene, better known as the 'Dudley Bug'. We have some lovely examples on display and plenty more in store.
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #fossils #paleontology #trilobites
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The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct | Lindsay Nikole
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The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct | Lindsay Nikole
#LindsayNikole #biology #evolution #trilobites -
The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct | Lindsay Nikole
#LindsayNikole #biology #evolution #trilobites -
The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct | Lindsay Nikole
#LindsayNikole #biology #evolution #trilobites -
The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct | Lindsay Nikole
#LindsayNikole #biology #evolution #trilobites -
RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873936921214929
more about #trilobites' eyes
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RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873936921214929
more about #trilobites' eyes
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RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873936921214929
more about #trilobites' eyes
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RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873936921214929
more about #trilobites' eyes
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RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116873936921214929
more about #trilobites' eyes
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Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.
Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.
Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.
Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.
Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007
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Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.
Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.
Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.
Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.
Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007
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Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.
Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.
Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.
Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.
Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007
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Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.
Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.
Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.
Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.
Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007
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Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.
Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.
Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.
Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.
Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007
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Oxygen loss in the surface ocean does a number of biology. It's true now, and has been across geological history. Here's another example for that for trilobites during the SPICE event.
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Oxygen loss in the surface ocean does a number of biology. It's true now, and has been across geological history. Here's another example for that for trilobites during the SPICE event.
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Oxygen loss in the surface ocean does a number of biology. It's true now, and has been across geological history. Here's another example for that for trilobites during the SPICE event.
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Oxygen loss in the surface ocean does a number of biology. It's true now, and has been across geological history. Here's another example for that for trilobites during the SPICE event.
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Oxygen loss in the surface ocean does a number of biology. It's true now, and has been across geological history. Here's another example for that for trilobites during the SPICE event.
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Just posted my artwork appearance in the MoNA auction catalog and the exhibition continues through May 31 when final bidding will take place. This is The Book of Shadows: turquoise kootenia, an image from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia near Field. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).
#art #auction #MoNA #fossils #trilobites -
Just posted my artwork appearance in the MoNA auction catalog and the exhibition continues through May 31 when final bidding will take place. This is The Book of Shadows: turquoise kootenia, an image from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia near Field. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).
#art #auction #MoNA #fossils #trilobites -
Just posted my artwork appearance in the MoNA auction catalog and the exhibition continues through May 31 when final bidding will take place. This is The Book of Shadows: turquoise kootenia, an image from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia near Field. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).
#art #auction #MoNA #fossils #trilobites -
Just posted my artwork appearance in the MoNA auction catalog and the exhibition continues through May 31 when final bidding will take place. This is The Book of Shadows: turquoise kootenia, an image from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia near Field. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).
#art #auction #MoNA #fossils #trilobites -
Just posted my artwork appearance in the MoNA auction catalog and the exhibition continues through May 31 when final bidding will take place. This is The Book of Shadows: turquoise kootenia, an image from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia near Field. This specimen, kootenia burgessensis, was the design for the relief plate to make resist images with acrylic medium (matte).
#art #auction #MoNA #fossils #trilobites -
💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?
Scientists studying #trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine #animals used lenses made of solid calcite #crystal to navigate the #ocean floor.
#science #evolution #paleontology #biology #history #nature #prehistoric
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💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?
Scientists studying #trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine #animals used lenses made of solid calcite #crystal to navigate the #ocean floor.
#science #evolution #paleontology #biology #history #nature #prehistoric
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💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?
Scientists studying #trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine #animals used lenses made of solid calcite #crystal to navigate the #ocean floor.
#science #evolution #paleontology #biology #history #nature #prehistoric
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💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?
Scientists studying #trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine #animals used lenses made of solid calcite #crystal to navigate the #ocean floor.
#science #evolution #paleontology #biology #history #nature #prehistoric
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💎👁️ Imagine seeing the world through eyes made of...stone?
Scientists studying #trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago found that these ancient marine #animals used lenses made of solid calcite #crystal to navigate the #ocean floor.
#science #evolution #paleontology #biology #history #nature #prehistoric
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#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
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B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
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#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
©#StefanFWirthI seriously depend on support, buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthReading
B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
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#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
©#StefanFWirthI seriously depend on support, buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthReading
B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
©S.F.Wirth -
#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
©#StefanFWirthI seriously depend on support, buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthReading
B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
©S.F.Wirth -
#Trilobites were primeval #arthropods, still unknown whether they belong to the ancestor lineage of #Chelicerata or all #Euarthropada. Besides their body segmentation, they possess #compoundeyes. #Asaphus #kowalewskii lived in the Ordovician and had #stalkedeyes, allowing it an overview of its surroundings even when covered with sediment.
©#StefanFWirthI seriously depend on support, buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirthReading
B.Schoenemann (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101032Pics
©S.F.Wirth -
Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is Asaphus kowalewski. This 450-million-year-old species stands apart from other trilobites with its eyes perched atop 2-in- (5-cm-) long stalks. To some, Asaphus kowalewski may look like an animal from a distant galaxy!
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is Asaphus kowalewski. This 450-million-year-old species stands apart from other trilobites with its eyes perched atop 2-in- (5-cm-) long stalks. To some, Asaphus kowalewski may look like an animal from a distant galaxy!
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is Asaphus kowalewski. This 450-million-year-old species stands apart from other trilobites with its eyes perched atop 2-in- (5-cm-) long stalks. To some, Asaphus kowalewski may look like an animal from a distant galaxy!
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is Asaphus kowalewski. This 450-million-year-old species stands apart from other trilobites with its eyes perched atop 2-in- (5-cm-) long stalks. To some, Asaphus kowalewski may look like an animal from a distant galaxy!
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is Asaphus kowalewski. This 450-million-year-old species stands apart from other trilobites with its eyes perched atop 2-in- (5-cm-) long stalks. To some, Asaphus kowalewski may look like an animal from a distant galaxy!
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
80 years ago today, the late #RichardFortey was born. Read all about him in A Curious Boy, a bewitching memoir that tells of his early years and shows the power of curiosity in shaping his life.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2021/07/30/book-review-a-curious-boy-the-making-of-a-scientist/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Trilobites #Scicomm
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80 years ago today, the late #RichardFortey was born. Read all about him in A Curious Boy, a bewitching memoir that tells of his early years and shows the power of curiosity in shaping his life.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2021/07/30/book-review-a-curious-boy-the-making-of-a-scientist/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Trilobites #Scicomm
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80 years ago today, the late #RichardFortey was born. Read all about him in A Curious Boy, a bewitching memoir that tells of his early years and shows the power of curiosity in shaping his life.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2021/07/30/book-review-a-curious-boy-the-making-of-a-scientist/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Trilobites #Scicomm
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80 years ago today, the late #RichardFortey was born. Read all about him in A Curious Boy, a bewitching memoir that tells of his early years and shows the power of curiosity in shaping his life.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2021/07/30/book-review-a-curious-boy-the-making-of-a-scientist/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Trilobites #Scicomm
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80 years ago today, the late #RichardFortey was born. Read all about him in A Curious Boy, a bewitching memoir that tells of his early years and shows the power of curiosity in shaping his life.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2021/07/30/book-review-a-curious-boy-the-making-of-a-scientist/#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Trilobites #Scicomm
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Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites -
Pictured is a 430 million-year-old Silurian Dalmanites caudatus from England. This 2.5-in- (6.4-cm-) long specimen was preserved in rock that, when carefully opened, revealed positive and negative splits! Notice that this trilobite is slightly disarticulated? A small brachiopod shell became wedged between the trilobite's head and body, causing them to separate.
via amnhnyc
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Pictured is a 430 million-year-old Silurian Dalmanites caudatus from England. This 2.5-in- (6.4-cm-) long specimen was preserved in rock that, when carefully opened, revealed positive and negative splits! Notice that this trilobite is slightly disarticulated? A small brachiopod shell became wedged between the trilobite's head and body, causing them to separate.
via amnhnyc
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Pictured is a 430 million-year-old Silurian Dalmanites caudatus from England. This 2.5-in- (6.4-cm-) long specimen was preserved in rock that, when carefully opened, revealed positive and negative splits! Notice that this trilobite is slightly disarticulated? A small brachiopod shell became wedged between the trilobite's head and body, causing them to separate.
via amnhnyc
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Pictured is a 430 million-year-old Silurian Dalmanites caudatus from England. This 2.5-in- (6.4-cm-) long specimen was preserved in rock that, when carefully opened, revealed positive and negative splits! Notice that this trilobite is slightly disarticulated? A small brachiopod shell became wedged between the trilobite's head and body, causing them to separate.
via amnhnyc
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Pictured is a 430 million-year-old Silurian Dalmanites caudatus from England. This 2.5-in- (6.4-cm-) long specimen was preserved in rock that, when carefully opened, revealed positive and negative splits! Notice that this trilobite is slightly disarticulated? A small brachiopod shell became wedged between the trilobite's head and body, causing them to separate.
via amnhnyc