At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

A team of researchers — including one from Texas State University in San Marcos — have discovered 10 new species of an extinct marine creature, a finding that scientists say could help piece together ...

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 ...

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of ...

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 ...

Enrollment in arthropods is an important defensive strategy that provides protection against predation. A – C, Enrolled Ceraurus from the Walcott-Rust Quarry. D – F, Enrolled Flexicalymene from the ...

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 ...

A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research suggests that having a fifth ...

"Trilobites hold the distinction of being among the world's first dominant forms of complex animal life, arthropods that rank second only to the hallowed dinosaur in terms of their paleontological ...