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Cannibalism is common among the millions of modern arthropod species. A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck blood out of wounded peers, and mosquitoes snack on larvae. But ...

Trilobites are one of the most common creatures found in the fossil record, but now some particularly well-preserved specimens have revealed some intriguing new details. It turns out that trilobites ...

Researchers reviewing decades-old x-rays of a 390 million year-old trilobite fossil have uncovered it had a wholly unique eye structure composed of 200 large lenses in each eye. Phacops geesops, a ...

LODI - Picture, if you will, a time when the area that would someday be called Wisconsin was an inland sea, awash with sea creatures large and small. Among the watery denizens were trilobites, a ...

A restoration of the tiny trilobite Ctenopyge ceciliae. From Schoenemann et al, 2010. These simplified illustrations of prehistoric sea life did not do the trilobites justice. Time and again they were ...

Waiting in line may feel like one of the more primitive aspects of modern life; think of all those people lined up for the latest iPhone, concert tickets or a trendy pastry. But following the leader ...

Fossil trackways are simultaneously wonderful and frustrating things. They are preserved bits of prehistoric behavior, but, unless an animal actually dies and becomes preserved in its tracks, ...

A small silicon structure that look like fossil trilobites has been developed. It is designed to separate blood cells and filter minute particles from waste water and brines, say scientists. Norwegian ...

Previous studies place the earliest cannibalism about 450 million years ago in the Late Ordovician period. But a study published last month in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, ...