The Most Successful Lineage to Go Extinct? | Lindsay Nikole

if that shirt is 20 years old, you're a G

10:54 great pun from a previous video; took me a second to get that one

I'm betting that a trilobite would be quite tasty with melted butter

As a Cajun, I see trilobites as a missed culinary opportunity. I bet they tasted like shrimp but I'll never know, sadly. If trilobites were alive today, you bet there'd be a whole Cajun seafood industry built around them. Already on the half-shell, not needing to be cracked open like oysters. No more meat on them than crawfish but available in equal quantity, and so we'd have huge, communal trilobite boils right beside huge, communal crawfish, crab, and shrimp boils. Aquatic arthropods (and really, most arthropods) are quite tasty, at least if seasoned properly. Few arthropods taste good raw or unseasoned. But I eat the Hell outta arthorpods and so I see trilobites as food, and am sorry I missed getting to taste them.

One thing I'm a little disappointed wasn't mentioned was the set up for the eyes for a few species, where they could see with 2 or more points of reference…

As someone who has a phobia of ants, I did not need that info on ant 😭

I used to insult people by calling them a Trilobite. I need to stop doing that.

5:27 Isotelus Rex was 2.5 feet long

That's more than a cubit, an ancient unit of length derived from the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, which is 1.5 feet long.

We where tired of living and reincarnated into crabs

September 12th can't wait it's like an early birthday . definitely putting it on my calendar this will be a great live stream. can't wait and what a more beautiful place to do it then Kenya out in the bush.
hopefully you got Starlink or good connection to internet at the camp
looking forward to it.
Great video

I could see the one that you said pops out of the grass more so popping out of like the sand under the seafloor.

2:55 Cicada molting!

A couple of weeks ago I was visiting the grave of a fellow Magic the Gathering player, and there was a cicada's shed decision his headstone.

So I left it there, but went around to all of the nearby trees looking for more castings. Not only did I find dozens of them, I found one cicada in the middle of molting. I initially thought it had died in the process, but no, it was just taking its time. It's wings had fully inflated before I left, but they were still all shriveled when I had first found it.

I've gone back to the cemetery a couple of times and found more molts, and I found another one that had climbed a tree, but hadn't shed yet. I gave it some space while I looked for more, but it vanished. It wasn't on the ground, and it wasn't on the tree. I'm guessing it got eaten by a bird.

Btw, I used a deck box to gather them. 🙂

Why did YouTube keep this hidden from me. I had to search for it!

That "fork" is used to immitate a plant. They burrow in the ground verticaly and the fork will look like a plant. They lurk this way for prey.

15:52 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Horseshoe crabs look similar to trilobites 😊

If there is a God. Fuck that guy. Wtf did Trilobites do? I miss them.
Also, great tunes on this video

Come for the freaky body plan, stay for the freaky nomenclature, Schmidtiellus reetae! I dont know if there is a name I can now like more than this one for being so funny/terrible (sounding)!

If is weird, then it is for "banging".

It wasn't until the first time I saw a Lindsay Nikole video on trilobites that I knew the 'tri' parts were side by side and not head – middle – backend.
Thank you Lindsay!

There were actually many species of trilobites with no eyes. Mostly in the late Devonian.

All the Trilobites went into the Falmer caves, and they became ANGERY.

If we include "minor" mass extinctions, it took 5 to finally kill off the trilobites. Whether by the fury of a pissed off god or by the machinations of Nature, you gotta admit these dudes absolutely did not bend to anyone's will. Stuff got thrown at them, and they kept coming back, flipping off the Universe in defiance as everything else died around them.

Also, notice that the dinosaurs only appeared in the fossil record after the extinction of the trilobites. Obviously, this is because that is what it took to make the conditions for dinosaurs to feel safe enough to evolve.