Things I didn’t know until today: The crest of Dudley County, U.K. features a trilobite, right there in the middle.  Turns out that the stone used to make the walls of Dudley Castle is filled with the fossils of the extinct trilobite Calymene blumenbachi and the historic peoples of Dudley made it part of their local identity. They even gave it a name: The Dudley Bug. (via Symbiartic, which should soon become one of your favorite blogs)
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Things I didn’t know until today: The crest of Dudley County, U.K. features a trilobite, right there in the middle. 

Turns out that the stone used to make the walls of Dudley Castle is filled with the fossils of the extinct trilobite Calymene blumenbachi and the historic peoples of Dudley made it part of their local identity. They even gave it a name: The Dudley Bug.

(via Symbiartic, which should soon become one of your favorite blogs)

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com

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