Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Fortey, head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum - Alamy ​Richard Fortey, who has died aged 79, ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...

Buried beneath layers of volcanic ash for over half a billion years, a set of newly unearthed trilobite fossils from Morocco is reshaping the scientific understanding of one of Earth’s earliest and ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research suggests that having a fifth ...

This image represents one illustration of how the trilobite fossil may have been set as an amulet or pendant. Fernández-Fernández, A., Valle-Abad, P., Rodríguez -Nóvoa, A.A. et al. Significance of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever ...

Despite how Ross’ paleontology career is treated by his companions in Friends, there’s something special about finding the remains of creatures that lived millions if not billions of years before us.