"I ought to introduce you to trilobites ... fossil arthropods distantly related to the s and s of today, but very distantly related — enormously diverse in the ... rocks ... with an evolutionary history of their own of several hundred millions of years ..."
— Richard Fortey

January 1, 1970

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Richard Fortey|publisher=UiO Realfagsbiblioteket, YouTube|date=November 13, 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMBJVuFkr-s&t=270s}} (quote at 4:30 of 1:05:52; lecture delivered at the University of Oslo Science Library)