What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Professor Primula's Portfolio of Palaeontology is a new dinosaur-packed Dungeons and Dragons splashbook designed by real dino ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a leading palaeontologist and naturalist from Henley who has died. Richard Fortey passed away at ...

The fossils were found in theBeecher’s Trilobite Bed, a Lagerstätte site well known for its exceptional preservation of ancient organisms. Lagerstätten sites are incredibly rare and offer an ...

Such fossils are found across the Himalayas, and finds include trilobites, brachiopods, ostracods and crinoids. Almost all sedimentary rocks are formed by water erosion, grinding up rocks over ...

Fossils don't get much older than trilobites, extinct marine arthropods that date back to a time before animals had backbones and even before there were any plants on land. They were already well ...