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Injured trilobite fossils provide the oldest known evidence of cannibalism.
Meet The Trilobite Beetles: Prehistoric-Looking Insects With Peculiar Sex Lives They’ve only been observed mating twice – and it’s definitely *something* to behold.
Trilobite Fossil Shows Animals Have Stood in Line for Hundreds of Millions of Years A line of 480-million-year-old trilobites found in Morocco may be the earliest evidence of collective animal ...
The discovery of giant trilobites in northern Portugal reveals the once ubiquitous marine creature mated en masse and used its numbers for protection, say European researchers. The new find ...
A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.
New research on 514-million-year-old trilobite fossils from this area reveals that trilobite digestion was sophisticated from early on in their evolution.
Over the course of the spawning season in 1999, there were some 761 000 live trilobites produced within a 1 × 3 m band of intertidal beach. Losses (mortality + emigration) were highest during the ...
Researchers say they have found the earliest known evidence of sexual combat in the form of a trident-headed trilobite that scuttled the seafloor 400 million years ago.
The earliest trilobites that we know of are from an order called Redlichiida, which appeared midway through the Lower Cambrian and lasted until about the middle Cambrian.
Trilobites were savvy killers who hunted down their prey and used their many legs to wrestle them into submission, newly discovered fossils suggest. A statistical analysis of these burrows and ...
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 ...
Afterward, the trilobite settled to live on or near the bottom as an epifaunal deposit-feeder. Ecology publishes articles that report on the basic elements of ecological research. Emphasis is placed ...