Trilobite Fossils Suggest Cannibalism Is Older Than Once Thought - The New York Times

The “king” of the trilobites was snacking on whatever it could eat some 514 million years ago in the Cambrian era, even shelled creatures of its own species.

Everything smaller gets consumed and turned into these lovely coprolites, he said. Everything larger gets something taken out of it, but it was able to get away from the attack. The attacker, he sur… [+1525 chars]

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