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Arthropods Formed Orderly Lines

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Arthropods formed orderly lines 480 million years ago

Source: CNRS
Date: October 17, 2019

Researchers studied fossilized Moroccan Ampyx trilobites, which lived 480 million years ago and showed that the trilobites had probably been buried in their positions -- all oriented in the same direction. Scientists deduced that these Ampyx processions may illustrate a kind of collective behavior adopted in response to cyclic environmental disturbances.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017114948.htm
 
Arthropods formed orderly lines 480 million years ago

Source: CNRS
Date: October 17, 2019

Researchers studied fossilized Moroccan Ampyx trilobites, which lived 480 million years ago and showed that the trilobites had probably been buried in their positions -- all oriented in the same direction. Scientists deduced that these Ampyx processions may illustrate a kind of collective behavior adopted in response to cyclic environmental disturbances.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017114948.htm
Ants still do that, but that's because they live as a supraorganism. I suppose there's no evidence of trilobite colonies or they would have mentioned it.
 
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