I'm from Dudley, there is a bridge about a 1/4 mile from my house and under the bridge are dudley bug murals. There is also a geopark close to my home where I have collected a lot of these fossils. Thanks for the Dudley shout-out Sci show!
@@mwater_moon2865 Yep! 2990 was pretty relevant too, in terms of finding trilobite fossils _way later_ in the archaeological / geologic record than we'd expect.
My mom still has a plastic tub full of these things she picked up while nature hiking decades ago. She didn't even have to dig, there were literally lying all over the place, particularly near quarries and old construction sites.
It depends on where you are. In southwest Ohio, you can find fossils in most creek beds, local limestone rocks, and sometimes coming out of the side of a creek bank. Mind you, if you want to find a trilobite (my mother's nemesis, since in over 30 years of searching, she never could find one - although we did!) Caesar's Creek State Park is the place to go, since you can rummage around in the rocks of the spillway. The largest trilobite found in the US was discovered there, which is why the trilobite is also Ohio's state fossil. If you go fossil-hunting there, you can keep any fossil smaller than the palm of your hand!
I've grown up by the Ontario shore of Lake Ontario (and still live here). My Mom used to show my sisters and I how to break apart shale to look for trilobites. I've actually got one that looks metallic (the rest of the shale is still black).
@@AdamTrout117 there's a second hole, you can see it better on the picture showing the back, it's just that the stone is broken, so it's looking like an indentation instead of like a hole, which is what undine said
One of my favourite fossils is the West Toft Handaxe which is a roughly 300,000yo axe head with a fossilised shell in the centre. Like, some ancient hominin found a shell in the rock, thought it was pretty and made an axe out of it. My heart can't handle it
I remember seeing images of trilobites as early as pre school age but I never knew how small they were. I always believed they were the size of a hand, I have no idea why though.
I have one that's about 3 inches across, they were meant for holding in your hand as a worry stone. I think what we paid would be less than US$20 in today's money (I got it more than few years ago as a kid.)
I did my GCSE Geology coursework field trip at Wrens Nest Quarry, a place in Dudley where trilobites are still relatively accessible. Didn't find any trilobites though.
It wasn't ALL fun and games for elrathia tho- multiple specimens show distinctive "bite marks" from sea scorpions and other carnivorous beasties from that time period.
I got to go on a behind the scenes tour of the Lapworth Museum of Geology, and got to hold the Dudley Bug reference specimen; the first Dudley Bug found. It was both very cool, and nerve wracking!
I feel sorry for the trilobites rolled up. The poor little guys were scared, they rolled up to protect themselves, hoping they'd soon be able to unroll... and then they never did.
I always wanted one as a kid, but fossils are pretty rare in Aus, as well as interesting crystals and minerals which is surprising given how ancient and vast this land is. Come to think of it, I've never heard of trilobites from Aus.
Indigenous cultures in America, including those in Africa and China have been collecting fossils since forever! I encourage everyone to read Adrienne Mayor's book, "The First Fossil Hunters" to see what I mean
Technically, everyone is indigenous to Africa. lol Really that is the ONLY place Humans are indigenous to. If you live somewhere else, you are a descendant of immigrants.
One of these were the first fossil i ever got. They are such awesome looking little creature, and some are so common that their fossils are literally less than a dollar each. They make some fun little gifts for people.
Trilobites and ammonites are my two favorite and my younger sister actually got me both as gifts. I’ve loved them both since I was a kid because they both have such interesting looks though trilobites are a bit more iconic.
It's a silly mental image but I'm just imagining a hunter-gatherer from thousands of years ago meeting a present-day human and they don't understand each other at all... until the hunter-gather pulls out his trilobite and they're suddenly best of friends. Because apparently one thing humans from any era can appreciate is "haha funny sea bug rock go brr"
They are the GREATEST survivors of any creatures (one of my favourites as well) as it literally took four, that is right FOUR mass extinctions to fully kill them off.
"... and quickly became so successful that the Cambrian period became known as the age of Trilobites." The wording made me imagine that the Trilobites knew of their success and therefore called it the age of trilobites. I wonder, were the Trilobites aware of their success? I suspect not, but a part of me hopes regardless.
If trilobites have been extinct for 250 million years, what was it that I was given in that scholastics "trilobites egg kit" I was lied to, kinda curious what was in there after they hatched.
it's very likely those were triops, crustaceans that resemble horseshoe crabs and trilobites but aren't directly related to either (and are very much alive in our era)
Interesting that the Utes were so in to fossils, but we don't have any evidence of that from the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in the region prior and had much more elaborate trade networks
Is there any evidence that the common meme/myth of dragons is due to humans finding dinosaur fossils? Or is the gisnt serpent meme a proto myth (i.e., Australian aborigines have one, they probably lived with one though lol), or is it convergent(?) Memetics(?) Or something else. Gonna see if you've done a video on this before.
I've seen so many pictures of trilobites and always thought they're about 10-15 centimeters long. Seems they're not, yet I still don't know their size span.
@00:56 He states they are most closely related to horseshoe crabs. This is very much not established, as people have also proposed they are more closely related to Mandibulates like crustaceans and insects. Even if they are grouped with horseshoe crabs in Arachnomorpha, we certainly have no current reason to say that they are any more closely related to horseshoe crabs than they are to other Arachnomorphs like spiders and scorpions.
I live in Mexico... I would love to have one of those fossils, so could anyone suggest me a way to buy one, and be sure it's real, not a plastic one or some kind of reproduction of it here in this country or through Internet? Thanks in advance!
Isn’t it false to say that trilobites are most closely related to horseshoe crabs? Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but horseshoe crabs are in the chelicerata group with spiders and scorpions, and trilobites are in a distinct lineage not really more closely related to any living group of arthropods than any other (or at the very least not any more closely related to horseshoe crabs than to say spiders or scorpions or ticks)
There seem to be two competing proposals. One groups them with horseshoe crabs in a large Arachnomorpha group that also includes spiders, scorpions, etc. The other proposal groups them with insects and crustaceans in the Mandibulata group. Even if they are Arachnomorphs, there isn't any reason to think they are particularly close to horseshoe crabs vs any other Arachnomorph. In short, they might be most closely related to horseshoe crabs, but we are far away from being able to say that at this point, and I am assuming this was a repeating of the common mistake based entirely on morphology.
Even if the Arachnomorpha proposal is correct, trilobites are no more closely related to horseshoe crabs than they are to other chelicerates (arachnids, sea spiders, eurypterids). It's misleading under any proposed phylogeny to single out horseshoe crabs are "the closest relatives" of trilobites. It's technically true, but they are tied with all other chelicerates as the closest known relative.
My older brother found one in our backyard when we were kids! He brought it to school and his teacher asked if she could hold onto it to show other kids I guess? Never gave it back or claimed to have lost it 😮
You find a trilobite and think” cool! I found a rock that looks like a bug” you find diphtheria and think, oh no, this is how two brothers my uncle and my wife died. Must be diphtheria.
Trilobites are antennates and closer related to milipedes, crustaceans and insects. Their purpoted relationship to chelicerates like horseshoe crabs and arachnids is a long outdated concept.
Please stop spreading the misconception that horseshoe crabs are close relatives of trilobites. Yes, they are all arthropods, but horseshoe crabs are actually chelicerates and are most closely related to arachnids, sea scorpions, sea spiders, etc.. The exact position of trilobites relative to living arthropod clades is still uncertain, although they appear to have no living descendants.
@nebulan depending on who you ask, like the Catholic Church, yes. Not saying they're right, just saying that the supposed definition is one that is accepted and used by a significant amount of people. One word can have multiple accepted definitions and trying to argue the definition is wrong is different from saying the person is wrong for using it.
I hate to disagree (actually, I don't; This IS the internet) but the cutest thing you'll ever see is a puppy or kitten whose eyes have very recently opened. ;-) richard --
CE date is the same as AD. CE stands for "Christian Era" rather than "Anno Domini" (= year of our/the lord). It is an attempt to slightly get away from assuming Christ's birth is central.
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Ancient Sumerian barley farmer: oo a trilobyte.
Modern American hiker: oo a trilobyte.
Future Canadian guy: Oo a trilobyte
Ancient person: oo, a dragon!
Modern person: oo, a dinosaur!
lmao
I'm from Dudley, there is a bridge about a 1/4 mile from my house and under the bridge are dudley bug murals. There is also a geopark close to my home where I have collected a lot of these fossils. Thanks for the Dudley shout-out Sci show!
I love this version of I guess what you could call a created cryptid for an area. or a mascot
I'm from there too I've always looked for the Dudley bug but never found one! Only crinoids, ammonites, shells, I'm very jealous
Fitting timing, given the trilobite's connection to English coal mining, and England's last coal-fired power plant going dark yesterday.
That's awesome news!
XKCD did a comic on it (# 2992 for those coming later) basically, calculating how much coal was pulled out of the UK since the Industrial Revolution.
@@mwater_moon2865Good good! another 10,000! And another!
@@mwater_moon2865 Yep! 2990 was pretty relevant too, in terms of finding trilobite fossils _way later_ in the archaeological / geologic record than we'd expect.
@@ancientswordrage So Thatcher did the right thing?
My mom still has a plastic tub full of these things she picked up while nature hiking decades ago. She didn't even have to dig, there were literally lying all over the place, particularly near quarries and old construction sites.
Workers probably found em and placed them aside or something.
It depends on where you are. In southwest Ohio, you can find fossils in most creek beds, local limestone rocks, and sometimes coming out of the side of a creek bank. Mind you, if you want to find a trilobite (my mother's nemesis, since in over 30 years of searching, she never could find one - although we did!) Caesar's Creek State Park is the place to go, since you can rummage around in the rocks of the spillway. The largest trilobite found in the US was discovered there, which is why the trilobite is also Ohio's state fossil.
If you go fossil-hunting there, you can keep any fossil smaller than the palm of your hand!
@@Echo_the_half_glitchno dude. I also found fossils just laying around. Nowhere near anywhere that has workers of any kind
I've grown up by the Ontario shore of Lake Ontario (and still live here). My Mom used to show my sisters and I how to break apart shale to look for trilobites. I've actually got one that looks metallic (the rest of the shale is still black).
A Golden fossil, where the fossil is comprised largely of pyrite? Those are REALLY COOL! Nice find!!
I agree with Victoria, most likely the metal is pyrite. I just have a few shale trilobites from Ohio.
@@victoriaeads6126 thanks :)
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The image pointing to the two holes is pointing to the same hole twice. The other hole is on the other edge and broken, so it's harder to see.
Yeah that threw me for a soft second. It's one hole right! Does a drinking straw have two holes?
@@AdamTrout117 there's a second hole, you can see it better on the picture showing the back, it's just that the stone is broken, so it's looking like an indentation instead of like a hole, which is what undine said
@@chesh1rek1tten Ah! I see it now. Thanks for the clarification
I as a child collected trilobites because they fascinated me and they still do.
Finally I see a real trilobite, not just a picture. I had the size way way off.
They came in a variety of sizes and shapes. Some were much larger than what's on here.
a quick search shows that the largest are about 12 inches :-)
I thought the same thing. I blame Animal Crossing New Horizons
@@ericnewman2727 apparently the largest known complete fossil is 27.6 inches long
I've got one that's about 3 inches across, you used to be able to buy them as worry stones from the Nature Company for like $5.
One of my favourite fossils is the West Toft Handaxe which is a roughly 300,000yo axe head with a fossilised shell in the centre. Like, some ancient hominin found a shell in the rock, thought it was pretty and made an axe out of it. My heart can't handle it
That one's so cool. How much skill did it take to be able to work the flint while keeping the axe perfectly centred on the fossil!
I remember seeing images of trilobites as early as pre school age but I never knew how small they were. I always believed they were the size of a hand, I have no idea why though.
Most are tiny but the largest found so far was over 70cm long, Isotelus rex.
Yeah, even in this video, none of the pictures come with a scale reference. Luckily we finally have a Stefan for scale
I have one that's about 3 inches across, they were meant for holding in your hand as a worry stone. I think what we paid would be less than US$20 in today's money (I got it more than few years ago as a kid.)
I did my GCSE Geology coursework field trip at Wrens Nest Quarry, a place in Dudley where trilobites are still relatively accessible. Didn't find any trilobites though.
Alas ever-rarer there due to overcollecting. They're still there, but not too many and not very complete.
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Oh!!!! I love trilobites, and I've always wanted to find or buy one! I'm so excited for this month's box!!!
I once found a trilobite fossil. It was is so cool.
Dudley bug! Dudley bug!
Love these things, a classic from my childhood fossiling days
I've been obsessed with trilobites for over a decade. Even tho if I saw one live I would run for the hills😂
Half asleep this morning, and he starts talking about Dudley! The Black Country rocks.
I love them. Buying and shipping them to australia is usually pretty expensive though because they're mostly oversees. otherwise i'd have soo many.
It wasn't ALL fun and games for elrathia tho- multiple specimens show distinctive "bite marks" from sea scorpions and other carnivorous beasties from that time period.
I went to Penn Dixie in New York State this year and found a ton of trilobites!
I got to go on a behind the scenes tour of the Lapworth Museum of Geology, and got to hold the Dudley Bug reference specimen; the first Dudley Bug found. It was both very cool, and nerve wracking!
I feel sorry for the trilobites rolled up. The poor little guys were scared, they rolled up to protect themselves, hoping they'd soon be able to unroll... and then they never did.
I always wanted one as a kid, but fossils are pretty rare in Aus, as well as interesting crystals and minerals which is surprising given how ancient and vast this land is.
Come to think of it, I've never heard of trilobites from Aus.
Indigenous cultures in America, including those in Africa and China have been collecting fossils since forever! I encourage everyone to read Adrienne Mayor's book, "The First Fossil Hunters" to see what I mean
Why would indigenous cultures in America include those from Africa and China?
Technically, everyone is indigenous to Africa. lol Really that is the ONLY place Humans are indigenous to. If you live somewhere else, you are a descendant of immigrants.
Do some people really enjoy semantics that much when the meaning of the post was loud and clear? 🫠
@@shakeyj4523 You have point, in a pedantic kind of way🤣😂. Appreciate your clarification
@@TrueWolves yes!
Unrelated: loved the lightning of the set!
Kabuto!!
I luv me sum dome fossils
I can imagine finding a stone looking exactly like some weird bug. It must've seemed magical and been a revered thing to own.
I'd be afraid of it waking up one day and biting me
One of these were the first fossil i ever got. They are such awesome looking little creature, and some are so common that their fossils are literally less than a dollar each. They make some fun little gifts for people.
So I guess at this point we can expect to find fossils of people finding these fossils
They figure only one in a billion of a population is fossilized.
Trilobites and ammonites are my two favorite and my younger sister actually got me both as gifts. I’ve loved them both since I was a kid because they both have such interesting looks though trilobites are a bit more iconic.
It's a silly mental image but I'm just imagining a hunter-gatherer from thousands of years ago meeting a present-day human and they don't understand each other at all... until the hunter-gather pulls out his trilobite and they're suddenly best of friends. Because apparently one thing humans from any era can appreciate is "haha funny sea bug rock go brr"
They are the GREATEST survivors of any creatures (one of my favourites as well) as it literally took four, that is right FOUR mass extinctions to fully kill them off.
I own several specimens. My first one was a pendant on a necklace.
My Dad and I used to collect them in Collingwood, Ontario, at the south end of Georgian Bay.
Should've showed the stone hand axe carefully shaped around a trilobite. Someone clearly thought that was special.
Well, today I learned the correct pronunciation of Ute.
And they were right about them being water bugs! So cool.
My dad got a shell necklace while in New Guinea during WW 2. Drilling hole in Shells and many rocks is a sign of a develop tool industry in a culture.
"... and quickly became so successful that the Cambrian period became known as the age of Trilobites." The wording made me imagine that the Trilobites knew of their success and therefore called it the age of trilobites. I wonder, were the Trilobites aware of their success? I suspect not, but a part of me hopes regardless.
Well, they did start developing alternate head skins. Wonder how many trilo-coins they used to spend to be born with the dual horns head model
It'd be neat if we still had trilobites. Just durdling around on the ocean floor, being themselves.
ROLLED UP TRILOBITES IS THE CUTEST FOSSIL EVER 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Newfoundland ,Canada, Hard to go for a walk without walking on Trilobite fossils and traces
I wonder how often ancient people recognised trilobites as some sort of a bug.
If trilobites have been extinct for 250 million years, what was it that I was given in that scholastics "trilobites egg kit" I was lied to, kinda curious what was in there after they hatched.
it's very likely those were triops, crustaceans that resemble horseshoe crabs and trilobites but aren't directly related to either (and are very much alive in our era)
Was the return address Paleozoic Park?
it might have included fossil replicas or a simulation of the trilobite life cycle
Triops?
My kids love trilobites
Interesting that the Utes were so in to fossils, but we don't have any evidence of that from the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in the region prior and had much more elaborate trade networks
4:06 sir, that's a roly poly.
I think i might have come from the only family ever, that called them potato bugs.
@@noknife1 lol, never heard that before.
One of my favorite bits of Aussie slang. God I love this country.
@@TipZ_TV Roly Poly is an American thing too, at least in the mid-West
Is a pill bug in the US what we in the UK call woodlouse?
Yes: wood louse, roly poly, pill bug and so many other common names
@@cassieoz1702 gonna add sow bug
I found one in my back yard in Maine. It's part of a big rock, so not something I can drill a hole in and hang around my neck.
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Do trilobites have toes? I have never seen the bottom side of one.
They have little feetsies
i think no, their limbs were jointed and somewhat similar to those of some modern arthropods
@@AncientWildTV haven't seen the legs either.
Is there any evidence that the common meme/myth of dragons is due to humans finding dinosaur fossils?
Or is the gisnt serpent meme a proto myth (i.e., Australian aborigines have one, they probably lived with one though lol), or is it convergent(?) Memetics(?)
Or something else.
Gonna see if you've done a video on this before.
Found one in Wisconsin
I mean it looks like an alien if we didn’t know any better, I’d love to find and collect one.
It really looks like the smaller version of horseshoe crab
4:43 and Xenomorph is shining.
I've seen so many pictures of trilobites and always thought they're about 10-15 centimeters long. Seems they're not, yet I still don't know their size span.
funky little dudes
It's also the state fossil of Wisconsin.
@00:56 He states they are most closely related to horseshoe crabs. This is very much not established, as people have also proposed they are more closely related to Mandibulates like crustaceans and insects. Even if they are grouped with horseshoe crabs in Arachnomorpha, we certainly have no current reason to say that they are any more closely related to horseshoe crabs than they are to other Arachnomorphs like spiders and scorpions.
They put my boi in the basement!
What's the Ute word for trilobite?
I have one of these! It's name is Bitey!
Any way to bring them back? Or by chance did they evolve to Rollie pollies 😅
They look a lot like pillbugs.
I live in Mexico... I would love to have one of those fossils, so could anyone suggest me a way to buy one, and be sure it's real, not a plastic one or some kind of reproduction of it here in this country or through Internet? Thanks in advance!
Paleo-archaeology or archaeo-paleontology?
I have never found one or seen one in person. How can I get my hands on one? Please hurry as I'm old.
There’s a quarry in utah where you can go looking
You might be able to view one at your local natural history museum
@@basiliskboy17 I live in Louisiana and I don't have enough money to go very much anywhere except for close by where I live.
@@pg2826 can I buy one online
Isn’t it false to say that trilobites are most closely related to horseshoe crabs?
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but horseshoe crabs are in the chelicerata group with spiders and scorpions, and trilobites are in a distinct lineage not really more closely related to any living group of arthropods than any other (or at the very least not any more closely related to horseshoe crabs than to say spiders or scorpions or ticks)
There seem to be two competing proposals. One groups them with horseshoe crabs in a large Arachnomorpha group that also includes spiders, scorpions, etc. The other proposal groups them with insects and crustaceans in the Mandibulata group. Even if they are Arachnomorphs, there isn't any reason to think they are particularly close to horseshoe crabs vs any other Arachnomorph. In short, they might be most closely related to horseshoe crabs, but we are far away from being able to say that at this point, and I am assuming this was a repeating of the common mistake based entirely on morphology.
@@ianfcrowley Thanks for the additional info!
Even if the Arachnomorpha proposal is correct, trilobites are no more closely related to horseshoe crabs than they are to other chelicerates (arachnids, sea spiders, eurypterids). It's misleading under any proposed phylogeny to single out horseshoe crabs are "the closest relatives" of trilobites. It's technically true, but they are tied with all other chelicerates as the closest known relative.
They're also very common decorations in the city of Mechanicsburg :3
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My older brother found one in our backyard when we were kids! He brought it to school and his teacher asked if she could hold onto it to show other kids I guess? Never gave it back or claimed to have lost it 😮
did you say two yutes?
Waterbugs..... how right the were
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Joe Pesci: The Yutes.
May I ask that you guys show more pictures and videos of what you are talking about with the presenters narrating?
It's Kabuto
I’ve always assumed these things were the size of
like a cat or a chicken, for some reason
ET is a plant
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Q: Why do cats attack your ankles?
A: Every time you say "trilobite" they think it is instructions!
So they did’t know what a trilobite was, but they knew what diphtheria was?
You find a trilobite and think” cool! I found a rock that looks like a bug” you find diphtheria and think, oh no, this is how two brothers my uncle and my wife died. Must be diphtheria.
Makes sense. Scuds can live in all sorts of water conditions.
A troglodyte with a trilobite on a rope with a poke on his neck; what the heck? Seems very Dr. Seuss.
(Bites nails waiting for my rocks box)
ha 19th
I like to think if the earth has been monitored by intelligent beings maybe one day they could show us hd video of the dinosaurs etc.
>Dudley coal mine
I wonder if this is this where the black British gentleman boxer Dudley from Street Fighter 3 got his name
Trilobites are antennates and closer related to milipedes, crustaceans and insects. Their purpoted relationship to chelicerates like horseshoe crabs and arachnids is a long outdated concept.
So, you are telling me that I will never find my own trilobite fossil.
Please stop spreading the misconception that horseshoe crabs are close relatives of trilobites. Yes, they are all arthropods, but horseshoe crabs are actually chelicerates and are most closely related to arachnids, sea scorpions, sea spiders, etc.. The exact position of trilobites relative to living arthropod clades is still uncertain, although they appear to have no living descendants.
It is a fish. Fish is a qualitative descriptor for any animate underwater life.
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Well thats a false equivalency. The definition for Fish as given is one that's actually commonly used. Example: Jellyfish.
Ah so these are fish? 🐳🐋🐬🦈🐙🦀🦞🦐🦑🪼
@nebulan depending on who you ask, like the Catholic Church, yes. Not saying they're right, just saying that the supposed definition is one that is accepted and used by a significant amount of people. One word can have multiple accepted definitions and trying to argue the definition is wrong is different from saying the person is wrong for using it.
Sea Stars are not fish.
I hate to disagree (actually, I don't; This IS the internet) but the cutest thing you'll ever see is a puppy or kitten whose eyes have very recently opened. ;-)
richard
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Red panda waving hello.
.rocks as top-level domain, really?
Human culture and history only goes back 12000 years.. you got 3000 years unaccounted for
I have one!
I'm selling it.
What is this CE date system? Do you have a video about that?
CE date is the same as AD. CE stands for "Christian Era" rather than "Anno Domini" (= year of our/the lord). It is an attempt to slightly get away from assuming Christ's birth is central.
@@BearlyNoticeablestands for COMMON era, not Christian!
The Horshoe Crab was probably the first thing to ever exist in the universe
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