Trilobites lived in all Earth’s oceans for hundreds of millions of years. They had tough exoskeletons, which made them more likely to fossilise. The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how ...

Fig.1: Tempo and mode in the body size evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. Changes in maximum size (red) and mean size (blue) for each time slice, with lines and shading representing the mean ...

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This image represents one illustration of how the trilobite fossil may have been set as an amulet or pendant. Fernández-Fernández, A., Valle-Abad, P., Rodríguez -Nóvoa, A.A. et al. Significance of ...

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A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...

Fig. 3: Phylogenetic based family-level body size evolution in Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. (A) Ancestral state reconstruction of body size. (B) Evolutionary traitgram of trilobite body size. (C) ...

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During an excavation project at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain, a team of archaeologists came across a specimen that was confirmed to be the first-ever trilobite fossil from the Roman era. It ...