February 20, 2016

Reconstruction of a trilobite attacking a worm-like prey (Image courtesy Stacy Turpin Cheavens of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri)

An article published in the journal “Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology” describes a research of truly exceptional fossils because they kept in ancient ocean sediments the traces left in the Cambrian by trilobites and their prey, worm-like creatures. Their analysis reveals the trilobites’ predatory behavior, which was already sophisticated more than half a billion years ago.