An artist's rendering of a trilobite based on preserved soft body parts. “We can use radio isotope techniques to date when the zircon formed and thus find the age of the eruption, as well as the ...

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Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have revealed new insights into the extinct marine animal's digestive system. The new study shows ...

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 ...

Nobody messes with the king. Well, except for the relentless passing of time. Scientists analyzing a large collection of trilobite specimens realized that one species, Redlichia takooensis, seemed to ...

If you've ever held a trilobite fossil, seen one in a classroom, or walked by one in a store, chances are it was Elrathia kingii, one of the most common and well-recognized trilobites. New work ...

Imagine this: It’s 1984, and two amateur paleontologists are digging in a quarry near Waukesha when they discover what ultimately turns out to be about 2,000 invertebrate fossils — things like ...

Cannibalism is common among the millions of modern arthropod species. A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck blood out of wounded peers, and mosquitoes snack on larvae. But ...

With all of the news about irreversible global warming and environmental collapse, it’s time to take a look at one of the Earth’s mega-survivors: the versatile Trilobite. Throughout the Paleozoic era, ...

New research helps explain how some ancient species hunted and fed, and highlights the shell-crushing power of one large trilobite. By Cara Giaimo Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites filled ...

About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some of the most complete specimens ever found of buglike sea creatures called trilobites, ...