Our travels took us to West Virginia recently. While known more for its coal mines, the Mountain State, named for the Appalachian range, is also a fossil hunter’s haven. Who
Scientists found single median eyes in trilobites 150 years after research started. Read more here. After 150 years of study, scientists discovered trilobites had single median eyes.
According to a recent study, trilobites, ancient marine arthropods that lived from 520 million years ago until their extinction 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian epoch, may have developed similarly to modern crustaceans and reached ages that are comparable to them.
Trilobites may not appear to be cuddly creatures, but when it came to mating, one species of these now-extinct arthropods, which resembled enormous, swimming potato bugs wearing Darth Vader helmets, would come together for a brief embrace, according to recent research.