Old Rare Roman Era Trilobite That May Have Been Worn as Protective Amulet. During an excavation project at a 2,000-year-old ...

The fossil may even provide some insight into how this trilobite was feeding. Though described as a “burrow” in the paper’s title, Fatka and Szabad argue that the trace might be part of a ...

Trace fossils, such as preserved footprints and poo, can help to identify how an animal might have moved or what it might have eaten, but other behaviours are harder to investigate. Graduate student ...

The fossils are of a kind of trace fossil called Rusophycus, ... The official state fossil of Ohio is the trilobite Isotelus, found in the 450-million-year-old Ordovician rocks near Cincinnati.

Top Image: The trilobite Agraulos ceticephalus at the end of a small, light-colored trace fossil it created. From Fatka and Szabad, 2011.

Earlier evidence for trilobites like Megistaspis making Cruziana and other trace fossils was sketchy at best, says Greg Edgecombe, a trilobite expert and researcher at London’s Natural History ...

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 ...

The fossil in question comes from 429-million-year-old sedimentary rocks in the Czech Republic. It’s a centimeter-long trilobite called Aulacopleura koninckii that split in half as the rock ...

Trilobite Fossils Show Conga Line Frozen for 480 Million Years. The orderly collection of ancient arthropods suggests that complex social behavior goes way back in the history of life on Earth.

Trilobites first appear early in the Cambrian and are one of the earliest examples of arthropods, the group that includes all insects. They flourished for over 100 million years, leaving fossils ...

But a group of trilobite fossils entombed in volcanic ash in Morocco may provide the best glimpse yet of the segmented seafarers. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, ...