Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have unearthed some of the most impeccably preserved three-dimensional trilobite ...

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 fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first vertebrates to walk on land. Found in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago. A trek to the abandoned, 300-acre limestone quarry at the park is “a ...

Collected by Harry Toombs in the 1960s from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation of western Australia. Fossil taxa include lungfish and other sarcopterygians, a variety of placoderms and actinopterygians.

What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...