A computer simulation of what the trilobite fossil from A Cibdá de Armea may have looked like if it was fashioned into a pendant. Archaeologists say the ancient Romans may have worn the fossil as a ...

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of ...

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and ...

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

Researchers describe unusual trilobite fossils prepared as thin sections showing the 3D soft tissues during enrollment. The study reveals the soft undersides of enrolled trilobites and the ...

Fossils collected more than 150 years ago show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive curling have not changed in millions of years. By Jack Tamisiea When the going got tough in the ...

Fig.1: Tempo and mode in the body size evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. Changes in maximum size (red) and mean size (blue) for each time slice, with lines and shading representing the mean ...

Hundreds of millions of years before anthropogenic climate change was ever a thing, life on Earth suffered mass extinctions due to climate change brought on by natural causes. Even so, there were ...

Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a full stomach. Yet it seems to be from a species that had a bizarre feeding pattern, and this particular individual may have been ...