For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

Trilobites are iconic marine arthropods from the Paleozoic era. Before the age of dinosaurs, trilobites were roaming the seas ...

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

A palaeontological Pompeii The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Caption A living arthropod (centipede Cormocephalus) crawls over its 515-million-year-old relative that lived during the Cambrian explosion (trilobite Estaingia).A study of arthropods reveals that ...

The cyclidans are an ancient group of marine arthropods. While they're often overshadowed by more successful relatives like the trilobites, these animals survived for over 250 million years ...

Derek E. G. Briggs is a palaeontologist at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and curator at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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 ...

A talk on trilobites will take place at 2pm on Saturday, April 12, in the Garden Suite at the Metropole Hotel in Llandrindod ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Harvard researchers in the Department of Organismic and ...

Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early arthropods called concilitergans, close relatives of trilobites. Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains ...