Trilobites' growth may have resembled that of modern marine crustaceans - Science Daily

Trilobites may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found.

Trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period -- may have gro… [+2570 chars]

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