Excavations at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain have yielded the first ever trilobite fossil from Roman times. Found in a trash heap associated with a high-status household, the specimen appears ...

There are also older trace fossils in the form of burrows, called Rusophycus, that are thought to be the work of trilobites and exceed 528 million years in age.

The palaeontology world has been flipped on its head after trilobite fossils dating back 509 million years were found perfectly preserved by volcanic ash in Morocco. Not only are they the oldest ...

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 ...

10 new species of trilobite fossil rise from volcanic ash. The extinct arthropods date back at least 490 million years. By Laura Baisas. Published Nov 24, 2023 9:00 AM EST.

A one-of-a-kind trilobite fossil hints at what and how these creatures ate. 3-D scan reveals the consumed remains of shells, sea urchin–like creatures and other bottom-dwellers.

Trilobites were one of our planet’s most successful groups of animals.. First appearing roughly 521 million years ago, they split into an incredible diversity of species ranging from just a few ...

An illustration of the specimen before it was engulfed by a mud flow. Illustration: Jiri Svoboda. The fossil is of Bohemolichas incola, one of more than 20,000 trilobite species that existed ...

About 465 million years ago, a now extinct arthropod called a trilobite was eating its way across the present day Czech Republic. After it died, the passage of time actually preserved the ...

The researchers discovered the trilobite’s nearly intact gut—the first of its kind in the fossil record—stuffed with the shelly remnants of an ancient seafood feast, revealing that B. incola ...

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, led by the American ...

Act of Dec. 5, 1988, named the Phacops rana as Pennsylvania’s official fossil.. The Act reads, “Phacops rana is a specific type of trilobite, a small sea creature. Trilobites were rulers of ...