However, when paleontologists were examining a piece of fool’s gold from the area, they realized an animal encased in the ...

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an ...

Now Fr. Skehan, professor emeritus in the geology and geophysics department at Boston College, has had a half-billion-year-old genus of trilobite named in his honor, in a fossil bouquet to his ...

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 ...

We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...