Pompeii

‘Prehistoric Pompeii’ Reveals 515 Million-Year-Old Anatomy of Sea Insects in Pristine 3D | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what is now Morocco produced some of the most complete specimens ever found of trilobites, insect-like marine creatures, revealing … Read more

A Pompeii trilobite preserves beautiful fossils in volcanic ash

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Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites were everywhere on Earth. Clad in tough exoskeletons, the animals left behind countless fossils that can be studied by paleontologists today. Despite all these preserved shells, scientists have not been able to understand certain aspects of trilobite anatomy after centuries of research, especially the soft internal structures of … Read more