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Most of the facts about the Velociraptor are now well known. This is due to the discovery of several fossils. It lived during the Cretaceous period and became extinct 70 to 80 million years ago. Like the other dinosaurs it likely perished when a comet / asteroid struck the Earth at the time.
Human fascination with trilobites apparently has a long history. Archaeologists have found trilobites associated with ancient human remains. At Arcy-sur-Cure, in France, a Silurian trilobite was found along with 15,000-year-old human remains.escription: Trilobites were some of the first multicellular animals to live in the world's oceans. Their fossil record extends back 530 million years to the early part of the Cambrian Period and indicates that trilobites evolved rapidly in the shallow seas of this time.