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

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 ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Even though exact ages for fossils and rocks would not be determined until the invention of radiometric dating in the early 1900s, the relative depth of the trilobites suggested that they must be ...

Ammonites make great index fossils due to their rapid evolution and wide distribution. So do trilobites. People have been finding fossils for a very long time. These objects were often misidentified ...