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

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have unearthed some of the most impeccably preserved three-dimensional trilobite ...

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 ...

Photomicrographs of local limestone samples below showing fossil fragments (Bc=brachiopod, Br=bryozoan, O=ostracode, T=trilobite) and matrix (M=microspar, P=pseudospar). Both intact and fragmented, ...

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), ...

Now Fr. Skehan, professor emeritus in the geology and geophysics department at Boston College, has had a half-billion-year-old genus of trilobite named in his honor, in a fossil bouquet to his ...

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 ...

Ammonites lived in the sea. If you find an ammonite fossil in a rock, you know that millions of years ago the spot where you’re standing used to be totally underwater. Trilobites are strange-looking ...

It was a history to which Fortey had contributed through his fascination with trilobites, which had been sparked aged 14 when, fossil hunting in Wales, he saw a promising-looking rock and tapped ...