“My jaw fell onto the desk,” says John Paterson at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. “I have never seen the level of detail preserved in these fossil trilobites. They are ...

The fossil came as a most unexpected and welcome present. "I cannot imagine a more significant gift and accolade than having the Avalonian trilobite genus Skehanos ... to even older Precambrian ...

Scientists made the find while looking at the well-preserved trilobite fossil. They lived in seas during the Palaeozoic era, between 541-251 million years ago. They found the ancient creature had ...

In this activity, your class will use images of trilobite fossils to explore how fossils preserve information about ancient life. They will sort the fossils into orders (closely related groups) by ...