In 2024, researchers announced several new findings collected from certain Cambrian trilobite fossils from Morocco. These fossils stood apart from others of their kind because of their condition ...

The paper, "Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites," was published in the journal, ...

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 ...

Frontlines | Trilobites: Living on the Edge Courtesy of The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation The most familiar and abundant species of trilobites in North America may have followed an exotic survival ...

This is a Cambrian trilobite fossil from Utah. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

The trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod vaguely resembling a horseshoe crab, inhabited the primordial seas that covered New England during the Cambrian period 500 million years ago. Skehanos is of ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

Trilobite compound eyes are the earliest well-preserved visual ... predicts that a shared set of genes used to build eyes originated before the start of the Cambrian. We can’t pinpoint precisely when ...

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 ...

And what a difference it made. In the sightless world of the Early Cambrian, vision was tantamount to a superpower. Trilobites became the first active predators, able to seek out and chase down ...