ved under er,mostly in shallow seas.

    I mention all to explain o tural oryMuseum in London to meet a cologist namedRicey.

    Fortey kno about an a.  of animate creation.

    But  love is a type of marine creature called trilobites t once teemed in Ordovicianseas but  existed for a long time except in fossilized form. All ss, or lobes—ail, tey found  . David’s Bay in ales. he was hookedfor life.

    ook me to a gallery of tall metal cupboards. Eacony trilobites—ty thousand specimens in all.

    “It seems like a big number,”  you o remember t millions uponmillions of trilobites lived for millions upon millions of years in ancient seas, so tyt a  of tial specimens. Finding acomplete trilobite fossil is still a big moment for a paleontologist.”

    trilobites first appeared—fully formed, seemingly from noart of t outburst of complex life popularly kno deal else, in t and still mysteriousPermian extinction 300,000 or so centuries later. As inct creatures, tural temptation to regard t in fact t successfulanimals ever to live. tory’s great survivors. ey points out,  as long.

    itime at trilobites proliferated prodigiously. Most remainedsmall, about tles, but some greo be as big as platters. Altoget least five ty turn upall time. Fortey ly been at a conference in Souty in Argentina. “S eresting trilobites t  deal else. Sies to studyto look for more. s of till unexplored.”

    “In terms of trilobites?”

    “No, in terms of everything.”

    t teentur