Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a full stomach. Yet it seems to be from a species that had a bizarre feeding pattern, and this particular individual may have been ...

Thanks to their easily fossilized exoskeleton, trilobites largely dominate the fossil record of early complex animal life. However, trilobite appendages and the anatomy of the underside of their body ...

Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods. Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had ...

This image represents one illustration of how the trilobite fossil may have been set as an amulet or pendant. Fernández-Fernández, A., Valle-Abad, P., Rodríguez -Nóvoa, A.A. et al. Significance of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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The “king” of the trilobites was snacking on whatever it could eat some 514 million years ago in the Cambrian era, even shelled creatures of its own species. By Rebecca Dzombak Cannibalism is common ...

Among fossils, trilobites are rock stars. They are adorable (as stony arthropods go), with a segmented shape distinctive enough to be a common logo. But they’re also fascinating because there are so ...