Trilobites are iconic marine arthropods from the Paleozoic era. Before the age of dinosaurs, trilobites were roaming the seas ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

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 ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense ... and a framework for supporting bigger body sizes. Trilobites, like this perfectly preserved specimen ...

The limestone contains the fossilized remains of fish, mollusks, trilobites, crinoids, and corals. These layers of sedimentary rock were deposited in Cambrian time, when another shallow sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Fortey, who has died aged 79, enjoyed a long career as head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, with a particular interest in trilobites, woodlouse-shaped marine arthropods ...