Did Henry Traber really pull a living trilobite from the Great Miami River in 1875? Was it only a fisherman’s fable? Or did Traber capture some unknown creature from the muddy stream? This antique ...

Fossil crane flies found in Denmark have crystals in their eyes — individual, see-through mineral pieces where the living eyes’ lenses once were. Living crane flies don’t have crystal lenses, the ...

An animal that lived 429 million years ago had compound eyes almost identical to those of modern insects like bees and dragonflies. The finding implies that the compound eye evolved very early in the ...

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A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago. By Jack Tamisiea Jack Tamisiea has previously ...

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 ...

Explore trilobite vision evolution—key insights into early complex eyes and their influence on the Cambrian Explosion. They might not seem like the most expressive eyes you've ever seen---but the ...

Pristine trilobite fossils have been unexpectedly found preserved by volcanic ash in Morocco. Palaeontologists previously thought fossils could not occur in volcanic rock. Palaeontologists want to ...

Fossil skeletons are static things. They no longer grow or respond to the stresses and strains of life. Tucked away on shelves or propped up on intricate armatures, fossil bones and other mineralized ...

Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life. One thing though that's very difficult to observe in the ...

One of the enduring mysteries of the beloved but long-extinct animals called trilobites is this: how did they reproduce? Despite long searching, no eggs or obvious reproductive equipment has ever ...