However, in the Ordovician, the creatures were invertebrates, or organisms lacking a backbone, such as brachiopods, trilobites, and corals. These organisms were perfectly suited to survive in the warm ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...

The Ordovician world was a watery one in which ... But in the Cabrières Biota, you’ll find brachiopods, trilobites, bivalved arthropods, worms, cnidarians, and mollusks. The fossilized loot ...

A remarkable fossil discovery has unveiled a 450-million-year-old species preserved in a golden sheen of fool’s gold, or pyrite, in a rare preservation process that captures intricate details of soft ...

The species, Lomankus edgecombei, was discovered at New York's Beecher's Trilobite Bed, a site famous for exceptional ...