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Lecture- I Love Trilobites (TX)
February 15, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
LECTURE – I LOVE TRILOBITES YES I DO, I LOVE TRILOBITES HOW ‘BOUT YOU? BY RICHARD FORTEY
FEBRUARY 15, 2018, 6:30 PM ยท PLANETARIUM
Trilobites were eyewitness to evolution. These shelled animals lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, as large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, Richard Fortey will pay exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species and introduce new findings from soft body fossil evidence. This lecture is sponsored by Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Science. Members $12, Tickets $18