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Trilobites are the earliest arthropods and are the first known fossils with eyes.
Their legs, which are rarely preserved, lay underneath. Many trilobites were capable of rolling up in a ball, probably for protection. Like all arthropods the hard outer skeleton meant that trilobites periodically moulted in order to grow bigger.