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GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Dennos Museum at Northwestern Michigan College has a new exhibit about trilobites. The gallery opened the “Trilobite Treasures” exhibit features ...

SAN ANTONIO — An international research team at UT San Antonio has made a discovery straight out of a science museum exhibit. Traces of chitin, the same material found in modern crab shells and insect ...

Sometimes, creatures are so strange-looking that they compel us to do a double-take. This Instagram video shows active, trilobite-like creatures grabbing earthworms in the water, riding them, and ...

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 ...

In Donkey Kong Bananza, there are three types of fossils you can find in the Canyon Layer. You’ll find common leaves, rare trilobites, and a very rare triceratops fossil as you journey through this ...

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Fig.1: Tempo and mode in the body size evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites. Changes in maximum size (red) and mean size (blue) for each time slice, with lines and shading representing the mean ...

The quest to discover Earth’s first animal is a journey through deep time. It leads us to ancient seas where life began its complex dance. The debate centers on two candidates: sponges and comb ...