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xkcd #2823: Fossil (imgs.xkcd.com)
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[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?

[–] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 1 points 1 year ago

Fossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.