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 ...

"The cyclidans have been compared to many different arthropods, including trilobites, horseshoe crabs, true crabs and copepods," Greg explains. "In 1997, well-preserved fossils showed that they ...

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

With such an incredible pool of inspiration to draw from, it's no surprise nearly every single Fossil Pokémon looks fantastic ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, The Fossil Keeper's Treasure ... including prehistoric creatures such as crab-like trilobites and the extinct genus Smilodon (or what most ...

Previous work has uncovered a trove of marine fossils dating back up to 110 million years ago, which also makes the latest ...

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 ...