Horshoe Crabs, Sow Bugs,Trilobites and Time
Took an early evening walk on the magic bay with Brent...the air was chilly and we went about looking at stones and shells and such wonders.
these horshoe crab guys have always fascinated me. "They evolved in the shallow seas of the Paleozoic Era (540-248 million years ago(!!?) with other primitive arthropods like the trilobites. Horseshoe crabs are one of the oldest classes of marine arthropods, and are often referred to as 'living fossils', as they have not changed much in the last 350 to 400 million years." um..that's a long time. and here we both are.(?)
Walks on the bay always get me to thinking about time...this itty bitty moment I'm standing in and all it took to get here and all it took for these stones and other things to become what I'm looking at. Quite mind-boggling really.
Earlier at home I was playing with a little sow bug (or pill bug or woodlouse, whatever you may call it)...Also thinking about its resemblance to trilobites and other strange wonders of time...
Wonder where we are headed...this lil human species...with our endoskeleton that makes us so fleshy and fragile on the outside..so we make carapace-cars and houses out of metal and wood...and our big funny brains that help us to understand things about longevity and sustainability that we are hopefully trying to incorporate into our behaviors.....