Here’s something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the ...

CNN — From a deer's elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab's oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of flashy features used in combat to help secure a mate. A team of researchers announced ...

Scientists have worked out how one unusual species of trilobite -- an ancient, sea-dwelling relative of spiders and lobsters -- was able to defend itself against predators and survive a bumpy ride as ...

A study finds that animal life's "Big Bang" ended much sooner than previously thought. The sudden appearance of numerous diverse animals more than 500 million years ago, known as the Cambrian ...

The Kaibab Limestone in northern Arizona, southern Utah, and southern Nevada contains an unusually extensive fossil record of Permian (Leonardian) trilobites which is here interpreted with respect to ...

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 ...

About 453 million years ago, a trilobite might have escaped the claws of a hungry giant sea scorpion. That is according to palaeontologists who analysed an unusual fossil found in the Czech Republic.