Here’s something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the ...

A mysterious, prehistoric marine creature has spilled its guts. For the first time, scientists have unearthed a fossilized trilobite whose final meals were preserved within its digestive system.

Some 465 million years ago, an armored pill-bug-like creature called a trilobite scuttled across an ancient seafloor and apparently scarfed up anything it could, according to a new analysis of its ...

Trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, had a hidden third eye — and sometimes even a fourth or fifth, new research suggests. Paleontologists knew that, like other arthropods such as insects ...

For the first time, a trilobite fossil has been found with preserved gut contents, and an analysis of the specimen suggests the iconic ancient animal had a voracious and unfussy appetite. “Most fossil ...

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 ...