Archaeologists in northern Spain have uncovered a remarkable artifact that bridges 450 million years of history: a trilobite fossil deliberately modified and used as an amulet during the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists in Galicia, Spain, have uncovered a significant discovery: a trilobite fossil, millions of years old, transformed into a Roman-era amulet. The fossil, believed to have been used as a ...

Fig. 4: Cambrian and Ordovician trilobite body size (A) and their correlation to the inferred oxygen levels (B) and temperature (C). (B) Ocean redox conditions and widespread anoxic intervals, showing ...

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 ...

Life reconstruction of Lomankus edgecombei, the golden fossil. Credit: Xiaodong Wang / CC BY 4.0 Paleontologists recently uncovered a striking golden fossil—encased in fool’s gold—scientifically known ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

Valentine’s Day celebrates coupling. Alan McWilliam tells Feedback about an offer he received, before the most recent Valentine’s Day, from a US-based biotechnology company. It couples charm with ...

Trilobite cephalic morphology impacted the autecology of individuals, and is critical for high- and low-level taxonomic assignments. Disparity in trilobite cephalon shape varied through time and was ...

A team of researchers — including one from Texas State University in San Marcos — have discovered 10 new species of an extinct marine creature, a finding that scientists say could help piece together ...

Researchers have discovered up to 10 previously unknown species of now-extinct trilobites in Thailand’s least explored region. Fossils hidden for 490 million years were uncovered by researchers from ...

A discovery of ten new trilobite species in Thailand, dating back 490 million years, provides unique insights into Earth’s geological history and the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland. Above is an ...

In a 100-page monograph published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, paleontologists have described ten new species of trilobites from the tuff-bearing Cambrian-Ordovician layers of Ko Tarutao ...