June 13 (UPI) --Paleontologists have discovered a giant new trilobite species on South Australia's Kangaroo Island. The discovery promises insights into the success of arthropods during the Cambrian ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 250 million years ago, some very important arthropods went ...

SA researchers have made a stunning fossil discovery on Kangaroo Island — Australia’s largest trilobite, a previously unknown species that roamed the oceans 500 million years ago. The University of ...

A species of ancient trilobites grew big forks on their heads to fight their opponents and impress potential mates, in what scientists say could be the earliest known example of ritualized combat.

Trilobites withstood events that shaped our world for more than 250 million years, enduring continents shifting, ice ages, mass extinctions and the evolution of fierce predators. After suddenly ...

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 ...

Some of the best three-dimensionally preserved fossil trilobites have been revealed from Morocco. The ancient arthropods were caught in the pyroclastic flow of a volcanic eruption that smothered the ...