One of the neatest parts of my job is cataloging and caring for scientifically interesting specimens. Science is based on evidence, and, for geologists, the evidence is in the rocks. If one ...

A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago. By Jack Tamisiea Jack Tamisiea has previously ...

Extinct trilobites called Walliserops trifurcatus may have been among the first creatures on Earth to engage in sexual combat, a new study finds. Public Domain At the bottom of the ocean 400 million ...

Pristine trilobite fossils have been unexpectedly found preserved by volcanic ash in Morocco. Palaeontologists previously thought fossils could not occur in volcanic rock. The palaeontology world has ...

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 ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER — Some trilobites scurrying across the seafloor around 500 million years ago probably sported two-lane digestive tracks, new research shows. Michael Rutana of Ohio State University ...

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 ...

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 ...