Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and ...

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 ...

Fossils collected more than 150 years ago show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive curling have not changed in millions of years. By Jack Tamisiea When the going got tough in the ...

Buried beneath layers of volcanic ash for over half a billion years, a set of newly unearthed trilobite fossils from Morocco is reshaping the scientific understanding of one of Earth’s earliest and ...

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, ...

We know a great deal about the diversity, lifestyles and evolution of these iconic invertebrate fossils. More than 22,000 species of trilobite have been named. This is largely because the trilobite ...

Scientists have uncovered intricately preserved fossils of trilobites that are providing new insights into the extinct invertebrates’ anatomy. The animals had been buried in modern-day Morocco after ...

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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 ...

A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research suggests that having a fifth ...

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