Trilobites are awesome!

They found thousands of gigantic trilobites! They were swarming in shallow waters, maybe to shed or mate. They're like 3 ft long each!

Shrimp on a Treadmill!!!!

Ok, so I'm a little slow these days; this had to make it onto the Today show before I saw it. Slacking on my game, sorry people. ANYWAY, David Scholnick at Hollings Marine Laboratory made this video while testing whether shrimps had decreased activity and fitness levels when infected with pathogens. The videos have become sensations on YouTube, and many people have put various music to the shrimp video. Anyway, I think the shrimp is super cute and should help people to not eat shrimp as much, hopefully, since they are not very sustainably fished. I think it is interesting how they mostly run with their back legs, and sort of trot every once in a while with their front legs.



I think this is probably the funniest version:


Along with the Rocky one:

Trilobites!!!

Trilobite eyes are compound eyes made of calcite!!!

I love trilobites, btw, because my dad read the Cartoon History of the Universe to me and my brother when I was in like first grade, and trilobites were in there and they were so CUTE!

This trilobite picture reminds me of Gregor, who kind of has a soft spot in my heart because he was sad and got an apple stuck in his shell.


I learned this from History channel's Evolve series on the Eye! It has lots of other interesting things in it too.