When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fossils show that early trilobites had crops, or stomach-like pouches that were once thought ...

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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Waiting in line may feel like one of the more primitive aspects of modern life; think of all those people lined up for the latest iPhone, concert tickets or a trendy pastry. But following the leader ...

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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Hundreds of millions of years before anthropogenic climate change was ever a thing, life on Earth suffered mass extinctions due to climate change brought on by natural causes. Even so, there were ...

Microscopy revealed the stunning compound structure in trilobite eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Trilobites — those ...

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This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...