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 ...

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The extinct arthropods date back at least 490 million years. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 24, 2023 9:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Scientists have uncovered intricately preserved fossils of trilobites that are providing new insights into the extinct invertebrates’ anatomy. The animals had been buried in modern-day Morocco after ...

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 ...

During an excavation project at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain, a team of archaeologists came across a specimen that was confirmed to be the first-ever trilobite fossil from the Roman era. It ...

A fossil site in Morocco has been called the “Pompeii of trilobites” as it contains sublimely detailed fossilised moulds of the creatures, preserved after a pyroclastic ash flow from a volcanic ...

We know a great deal about the diversity, lifestyles and evolution of these iconic invertebrate fossils. More than 22,000 species of trilobite have been named. This is largely because the trilobite ...

Scientists have revealed the most anatomically complete specimens of Cambrian trilobites ever found in stunning 3D images. The pristine fossils, which date to the Cambrian period (541 million to 485 ...