About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to protect itself from predators, a recently-discovered fossil suggests. The new discovery is the oldest evidence that trilobites ...

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Trilobites are extinct anthropods that have proven helpful for geologists in learning how the earth developed across millions of years. Now researchers have discovered ten new species of trilobites, ...

Finding ancient fossils is no easy task, even for seasoned paleontologists and other researchers who spend their lives guessing where they might uncover the leftovers of some long-dead creature. An 11 ...

The discovery of giant trilobites in northern Portugal reveals the once ubiquitous marine creature mated en masse and used its numbers for protection, say European researchers. The new find, published ...

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 ...

Trilobites, the extinct marine creatures famous to fossil-hunters everywhere, may have once done digging of their own, say UK and Swedish researchers. Rocks found in a Swedish limestone quarry contain ...

The fossil dated back to the Paleozoic era. Taylor hopes her unusual find will one day grace the shelves of a museum for others to enjoy. "To find something like that, it's really, really cool," ...

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 ...

Rare fossils taken into Estonian illegally were seized by the Tax and Customs Board (MTA) and are now in the care of the natural history museum, "Ringvaade" reported. The two, fully intact trilobite ...

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Trilobites, such as this Mummaspis muralensis, emerged during the Cambrian Period and went extinct more than 250 million years ago. About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to ...