Frontlines | Trilobites: Living on the Edge Courtesy of The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation The most familiar and abundant species of trilobites in North America may have followed an exotic survival ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 465 million years ago, a now extinct arthropod called a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 250 million years ago, some very important arthropods went ...

Trilobites may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found. Trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans ...

The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.

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The discovery of clasper limbs in a fossil suggests that some species of the ancient arthropods reproduced much like modern horseshoe crabs. By Jack Tamisiea The sturdy, calcite-infused exoskeletons ...

On the way up to Michigan for my mothers wedding, we stopped in Georgia to hunt for Trilobite fossils! I made a mistake with the age in the video. These trilobites are actually from the Cambrian ...

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 ...