Did Henry Traber really pull a living trilobite from the Great Miami River in 1875? Was it only a fisherman’s fable? Or did Traber capture some unknown creature from the muddy stream? This antique ...

Fossil crane flies found in Denmark have crystals in their eyes — individual, see-through mineral pieces where the living eyes’ lenses once were. Living crane flies don’t have crystal lenses, the ...

An animal that lived 429 million years ago had compound eyes almost identical to those of modern insects like bees and dragonflies. The finding implies that the compound eye evolved very early in the ...

Trilobites lived in the Paleozoic era, approximately 540 million to 252 million years ago, and were extremely abundant, with over 20,000 known species. However, until now it has not been revealed what ...

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Explore trilobite vision evolution—key insights into early complex eyes and their influence on the Cambrian Explosion. They might not seem like the most expressive eyes you've ever seen---but the ...

Frontlines | Trilobites: Living on the Edge Courtesy of The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation The most familiar and abundant species of trilobites in North America may have followed an exotic survival ...

Pristine trilobite fossils have been unexpectedly found preserved by volcanic ash in Morocco. Palaeontologists previously thought fossils could not occur in volcanic rock. Palaeontologists want to ...

Fossil skeletons are static things. They no longer grow or respond to the stresses and strains of life. Tucked away on shelves or propped up on intricate armatures, fossil bones and other mineralized ...

A new paper suggests an ancient creature’s odd anatomical feature may be the earliest known example of specialized sexual combat in the animal kingdom. By Asher Elbein Walliserops trifurcatus wasn’t ...