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Scientists have found traces of a tough material that once formed the outer shells of ancient sea creatures called trilobites, preserved inside fossils that are more than 500 million years old. The ...

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Fig.1: Tempo and mode in the body size evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. Changes in maximum size (red) and mean size (blue) for each time slice, with lines and shading representing the mean ...

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(CNN) — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some of the most complete specimens ever found of buglike sea creatures called trilobites ...