Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which ...

In this activity, your class will use images of trilobite fossils to explore how fossils preserve information about ancient life. They will sort the fossils into orders (closely related groups) by ...

A palaeontological Pompeii The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional molds within fine volcanic ash, not unlike ...

Scientists made the find while looking at the well-preserved trilobite fossil. They lived in seas during the Palaeozoic era, between 541-251 million years ago. They found the ancient creature had ...

We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...