Paleontologists Find Trilobite’s Last Meal in 465-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Stomach ... and one of these techniques is to fill the digestive tract with water, or air, or food. ...

The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a dog-eat-dog world out ...

The world’s earliest known case of cannibalism occurred over 500 million years ago in the depths of the early oceans. Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Weird T. Rex Has a Damn Good ...

Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a full stomach. Yet it seems to be from a species that had a bizarre feeding pattern, and this particular individual may have been ...

A high-resolution 3-D scan of a fossilized trilobite reveals what the ancient marine arthropod ate before it died: shell fragments, bits of sea urchin–like creatures and other bottom-dwellers ...

Trilobites were marine animals similar to today’s spiders and crustaceans known for a wide variety of ... other defense possibilities and burrowing or sensing food are possible uses for the ...

In short, trilobite body size changes during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods correspond closely with marine redox fluctuations. It is reasonable to assume that marine redox influenced, ...

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner ...

The standard trilobite limb is segmented into three distinct portions — a walking leg, or endopodite, and a gill structure, the exopodite, are connected to the body by a spiny food-processing ...

Every segment on a trilobite had two legs, which functioned as gills that helped them breathe by absorbing oxygen from the water and releasing carbon dioxide. More legs meant more incoming oxygen.

Ben Franklin had nothing on trilobites. Roughly 400 million years before the founding father invented bifocals, the now extinct trilobite Dalmanitina socialis already had a superior version (SN: 2 ...

Geologists have discovered 10 new species of trilobite in a relatively unstudied area of Thailand. These extinct sea creatures were hidden for 490 million years and are helping scientists create a ...