What now creationists? Look at this amazing photo of a perfectly-preserved 400 million year-old trilobite

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, there is a flawless specimen of Walliserops, a five-inch trilobite that swam in the Devonian seas around what is now Morocco some 150 million years before the first dinosaurs hatched.

With its elongated, triple-tined head horn and a bristle brush of spines encircling its lower body, the trilobite looks like a kid’s toy you could pick up in the museum’s gift shop.

Look:

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