trilobite

Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found, shaking up scientific understanding of long-extinct group

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Microtomographic reconstruction of the head and anterior trunk (“body”) limbs of the trilobite Protolenus (Hupeolenus) in ventral view. Credit: Arnaud Mazurier, IC2MP, Univ. Poitiers Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of Morocco and … 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