Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Fortey, head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum - Alamy ​Richard Fortey, who has died aged 79, ...

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to ...

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A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research, led by the American Museum ...

For the first time, a trilobite fossil has been found with preserved gut contents, and an analysis of the specimen suggests the iconic ancient animal had a voracious and unfussy appetite. “Most fossil ...

About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some of the most complete specimens ever found of buglike sea creatures called trilobites, ...