Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which ...

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 ...

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), ...

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

Ammonites make great index fossils due to their rapid evolution and wide distribution. So do trilobites. Trilobites first appeared around 520 million years ago, and they survived for more than 250 ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

Ammonites lived in the sea. If you find an ammonite fossil in a rock, you know that millions of years ago the spot where you’re standing used to be totally underwater. Trilobites are strange-looking ...

It was a history to which Fortey had contributed through his fascination with trilobites, which had been sparked aged 14 when, fossil hunting in Wales, he saw a promising-looking rock and tapped ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a leading palaeontologist and naturalist from Henley who has died. Richard Fortey passed away at ...