trilobites are some of the best studied fossil marine animals. Over 20,000 species have been described by paleontologists ...

A palaeontological Pompeii The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional molds within fine volcanic ash, not unlike ...

The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how species gradually evolved, slowly changing form as they adapted to changing environments. In some cases, trilobites changed form only to slowly go ...

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 ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

The fossil came as a most unexpected and welcome present. "I cannot imagine a more significant gift and accolade than having the Avalonian trilobite genus Skehanos ... older Precambrian ancestral ...

The right eye of the fossil, which was unearthed in Estonia ... improved compound eyes with higher resolution developed in another trilobite species from the present-day Baltic region.

Trilobites provide an unparalleled sample set for understanding evolutionary patterns in Palaeozoic marine rocks. There are more than 20,000 known species. Our current research projects include: ...