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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this activity, your class will examine the process of fossilisation. They will discuss how fossils are formed by mineralisation of the remains of living organisms. They will explore this effect by ...

Using cabbage water as an indicator, they will investigate how increasing levels of carbon dioxide can make water more acidic. They will then see how acidic water can effects calcium carbonate, and ...

(CN) — In Morocco, researchers have unearthed remarkably well-preserved trilobite fossils, offering a clearer glimpse into their Cambrian-era anatomy than ever before. Researchers detailed their ...

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, led by the American Museum ...

Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to the ...

Artistic reconstruction of two species of trilobite an instant before burial in a flow of volcanic ash 510 million years ago. Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional ...