A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

Writing about 100 years after the death of the Roman emperor Augustus, the historian Suetonius noted the leader’s fascination ...

A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including ...

“These trilobite fossils represent the most complete specimens found to date, not only preserving the hard exoskeleton but also the soft parts in 3-D, such as the antennae, walking legs and the ...

The trilobite fossils examined in the new study came from central New York’s Walcott-Rust Quarry, where a mudslide 450 million years ago smothered an entire community of the scuttling sea creatures.

They flourished for over 100 million years, leaving fossils that are seemingly ubiquitous—we've described over 20,000 different trilobite species. That's over three times the number of mammalian ...

Environment Animals 10 new species of trilobite fossil rise from volcanic ash The extinct arthropods date back at least 490 million years. Laura Baisas Nov 24, 2023 9:00 AM EST ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...

Trilobites are one of the most common creatures found in the fossil record, but now some particularly well-preserved specimens have revealed some intriguing new details. It turns out that ...

A high-resolution 3-D scan of a fossilized trilobite reveals what the ancient marine arthropod ate before it died: shell fragments, bits of sea urchin–like creatures and other bottom-dwellers ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites could be found all over the Earth. Cloaked in tough exoskeletons, the animals left behind countless fossils to be studied by paleontologists today ...