What do the Tour de France and fossils have in common? | Susannah Lydon

Sport and palaeontology rarely overlap, but a new study shows ancient arthropods may have used the same slipstreaming techniques as elite cyclistsTrilobites are common fossils. Resembling nothing so much as a glorified woodlouse, these animals teemed in our oceans for millions of years. The first fossils are around 520 million years old, while the final demise of one last group of survivors took place 250 million years ago, in the Earth’s biggest known mass extinction event. In size, they