Trilobite From Another World

Every once in a while, I get obsessed with a form that feels like it doesn’t belong to this planet. Trilobites are one of those forms—prehistoric, armored, patterned like an alien’s idea of symmetry.

They’re fossils that already look like sci-fi props, even though they crawled through the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago.

So here’s the deal: I’ve been making what I call Galactic Fossils—steel relics that mash up paleontology with speculative exoplanet life. Think: “What if a trilobite evolved not in Earth’s primordial soup, but on some other rock orbiting a dim red sun?” That’s where this piece comes in.

It took me forever. Like, almost two years of on-and-off work. Partly because I was obsessing over the geometry in Cinema 4D, partly because I coated and re-coated it trying to get the surface right. The body sits in pale beige steel, while the support is jet black—basically erasing the pedestal so the creature itself floats in raw material form.

It’s not “accurate” paleoart. This isn’t about reconstructing anatomy. It’s closer to Tim Burton meets speculative biology, with a splash of sci-fi prop design. It’s a trilobite’s shadow as imagined on a mirror-universe planet. A creature that never existed here but feels like it could have.

I still haven’t named it. Honestly, it doesn’t want to be named yet. If you’ve got an idea, I’m taking suggestions over on r/Galactic_Fossils.

Until then, it lives as it is: a relic from a place we’ll never visit, but can still dream about.