Kope Formation Bryozoan

Bryozoan fossil section found in the Kope Formation of Carroll County, Kentucky. These little moss creatures lived in the Ordovician Period.

Trilobite Beetle

Not quite fossils or trilobites but these insects look like trilobites in some respects.  According to Wikipedia it is a "Duliticola is a genus of beetles of the family Lycidae."

First YouTube video is of beetle found in Laos.



Second YouTube video is of insect found Borneo

3-D Trilobite Video

UPDATE: Ouch, weeks after this entry was published Criteria Systems ceased operating on September 3, 2010!  The video was removed from YouTube, so much for their legacy.

Criteria Systems is a company in Calgary, Canada that produces three dimensional images of objects. For one of their demonstrations they chose a trilobite.

The object was 3-D scanned and the process is described at their web site here.  Also don't forget to check out their blog.

Very cool technology and it will be great when consumers will be able to take 3-D pictures or scans!