About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to protect itself from predators, a recently-discovered fossil suggests. The new discovery is the oldest evidence that trilobites ...

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Trilobites are extinct anthropods that have proven helpful for geologists in learning how the earth developed across millions of years. Now researchers have discovered ten new species of trilobites, ...

Finding ancient fossils is no easy task, even for seasoned paleontologists and other researchers who spend their lives guessing where they might uncover the leftovers of some long-dead creature. An 11 ...

Trilobites, the extinct marine creatures famous to fossil-hunters everywhere, may have once done digging of their own, say UK and Swedish researchers. Rocks found in a Swedish limestone quarry contain ...

The discovery of giant trilobites in northern Portugal reveals the once ubiquitous marine creature mated en masse and used its numbers for protection, say European researchers. The new find, published ...

Rare fossils taken into Estonian illegally were seized by the Tax and Customs Board (MTA) and are now in the care of the natural history museum, "Ringvaade" reported. The two, fully intact trilobite ...

Trilobites, such as this Mummaspis muralensis, emerged during the Cambrian Period and went extinct more than 250 million years ago. About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to ...