Burrow down
Trilobites, those cute little fossil critters, probably buried themselves under the muddy seafloor while molting to elude predators. Argentinean researchers have unearthed deformed fossils that show for the first time that trilobites must have molted in soft sediment, the team reports in an upcoming issue of
Geology
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