While they're often overshadowed by more successful relatives like the trilobites ... underwater beetle. Some of the earliest species were just a few millimeters in size and form fossils that ...

Close-up view of ancient trilobite fossils in black and white texture ... with the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. (Incuapa – Conicet/ via Daily Mail) Determining the age of a fossil is ...

Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker stopped by Bucktail Area High School in Renovo to learn more about their efforts.

This insight enabled him to use trilobites and other fossils to constrain the position of the continents throughout time. He has died, aged 79. Fortey was born in Ealing in west London and ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early arthropods called concilitergans, close relatives of trilobites. Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...