By Jim Brace-Thompson
The story reads like an exciting detective yarn complete with wartime drama, a deathbed confession, and a name just made for newspaper...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
For some 90 years, paleobotanists have known about an ancient group of plants known as Noeggerathiales from 325 to 251 million years...
By Joseph "PaleoJoe" Kchodl
The Cambrian trilobite ALBERTELLA longwelli has a very small pygidium or tail section, but it ends with two very long, rearward-pointing...
By Joseph "PaleoJoe" Kchodl
There are many species of CERAURUS trilobites around the world, including Canada and the United States. Each species has subtle differences.
This...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
It made the cover story for the March 19, 2021, issue of the journal Science. Therein, an international team led by vertebrate...
By Joseph "PaleoJoe" Kchodl
Presented here is PSEUDODECHANELLA rowi, a beautiful and deep black-colored trilobite from the Devonian Period of New York. This stout trilobite...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
When we think of major fossil discoveries, we think of a dashing Roy Chapman Andrews leading a field expedition in remote deserts...
By Joseph "PaleoJoe" Kchodl
MAUROTARIAN axitiosum is a Devonian trilobite from the famous Haragan Formation of Coal County, Oklahoma. This area is well known for...