This video shows a virtual reconstruction of one of the remarkably well-preserved trilobite specimens that were smothered by an ash flow more than 500 million years ago. Maya Rudolph as Harris and ...

They formed when a volcanic eruption occurred in shallow ocean waters, quickly covering two species of trilobites on the seafloor with a thick layer of hot volcanic ash. An X-ray reconstruction of ...

Artistic reconstruction of two species of trilobite an instant before burial in a flow of volcanic ash 510 million years ago. Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three ...

More recently, scientists noticed shards of shell sticking out of the trilobite’s trunk ... segmentation of individual structures using a reconstruction software. The three-dimensional model ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About half a ...

Some of the most perfectly preserved trilobite fossils ever found have revealed details of the extinct arthropod unknown until now. The new specimens, which were killed and fossilised quickly when ...

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and ...

In contrast, trilobite size was strikingly correlated with fluctuations in marine redox (i.e., marine oxygen levels), especially during the well-known anoxic events of this interval.

Artistic reconstruction of two species of trilobite an instant before burial in a flow of volcanic ash 510 million years ago. Credit: Prof. A. El Albani, Univ. Poitiers.