“These trilobite fossils represent the most complete specimens found to date, not only preserving the hard exoskeleton but also the soft parts in 3-D, such as the antennae, walking legs and the ...

From scans of these prehistoric molds, the scientists reconstructed 3D digital models, displaying trilobite anatomy in unprecedented detail. The hot volcanic flow that buried the trilobites ...

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner ...

Trilobite fossils rarely preserve the creatures' legs; typically, only the hard outer shell fossilizes, Losso said. In fact, only 38 of the 20,000 known species have fossils with preserved ...

The seas were filled with trilobites for nearly 300 million years starting in the Cambrian Period, some 520 million years ago. During their time on Earth, which lasted much longer than the ...

This froze the trilobites in time like the doomed inhabitants of Pompeii, who were buried in ash as they fled Vesuvius’s outburst. Some of the trilobites are curled up in a ball while others ...

The 3-D scans revealed a bevy of shell fragments lodged in each of the trilobite’s two stomachs. The shells belonged to an assortment of tiny seafloor creatures, including small clams; bivalve ...

A high-resolution 3-D scan of a fossilized trilobite reveals what the ancient marine arthropod ate before it died: shell fragments, bits of sea urchin–like creatures and other bottom-dwellers ...

Morgan is a stratigraphic paleontologist, meaning he collects full sections of rock to identify the different species in the rock layers. By examining and identifying the different trilobites in ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...