Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in ...

These fossils date back hundreds of millions of years to a time when life looked very different. Trilobites once lived in ...

Trilobites are one of the most iconic fossil animals out there. And people have loved them for centuries! Let's talk about the people across time and space who have loved collecting trilobites, from ...

Trending today: a study of historical trilobite fossil collections, proving that humans have always loved collecting cool-looking tchotchkes.

In Trilobites, reporters aim to share new findings in the science world, be it interspecies friendships or discoveries of ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

A rare 500-million-year-old trilobite fossil was seized at the border after customs officials found it hidden in a cracked ...