Paleo Profiles: Trilobites

They might not look like much but the trilobites were perhaps one of the most successful groups of animals to ever inhabit the planet. Very few groups of animals managed to be found over such a long period of time, over such a wide area, and filling so many ecological niches – the only other

Paleo Profiles: Anomalocaris

Millions upon millions of years ago a very bizarre creature swam in the oceans of the world. This was Anomalocaris, a strange mish-mash of body parts that took a century for palaeontologists to realise belonged to one animal. This very bizarre looking animal was the apex predator of its time, and was highlighted by the

Paleo Profiles: Pikaia

When we think of important fossil discoveries we might think of Sue, the near-complete Tyrannosaurus, the Archaeopteryx, whose feathers provided a ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and modern birds, or the Tiktaalik, which we looked at last time in Paleo Profiles. However, there is another, and is so important that it might help shed light on the evolution