The relative scarcity of soft tissues in other fossils of trilobites has kept knowledge about their internal organs to a minimum. Experts want to understand more about soft tissues, through ...

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 ...

The pyroclastic flow and ash flowed into a shallow marine environment, home to ancient arthropods called trilobites. The ash ensured their preservation and soft tissues, which usually degrade or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each eye is about the same volume as the animal's brain. An ancient tower-eyed trilobite with dozens of calcite lenses. Trilobites evolved a wide variety of eye forms. Trilobites lived between 521 and ...