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Joel Kontinen
Evolutionists claim
that ”trilobites are weird creatures, who looked like giant swimming potato bugs wearing helmets,
and lived on Earth for a whopping 270 million years . These armoured invertebrates, whose species once numbered in
the thousands, thrived in the oceans as they scavenged and dug for food, and
even managed to survive two mass extinctions.
But about 252 million years ago,
trilobites disappeared from the fossil record. What finally wiped out this
class of resilient bottom dwellers? “
Then
“The trilobite's disappearance coincided with the end-Permian extinction
(also known as the Permian-Triassic extinction), the third and the most
devastating mass extinction event. Volcanic eruptions in
Siberia spewed enormous amounts of lava for around 2 million years, according
to Melanie Hopkins, an associate curator of paleontology at the American Museum
of Natural History in New York City. These fiery eruptions sent trillions of
tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering ocean acidification, which in turn made it
very difficult for marine animals to survive, according to a 2010 paper
published in the journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Up to 95% of marine species succumbed to the
end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying, including the
trilobites.”
However, I think that Noah's flood killed off much of the trilobites. It was probable associated with volcanic eruptions that likely also had an effect on animals.
Source:
Coffey, Donavyn, 2020. Why did trilobites go extinct? Live Science 15 November .
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