A fossil site in Morocco has been called the “Pompeii of trilobites” as it contains sublimely detailed fossilised moulds of the creatures, preserved after a pyroclastic ash flow from a ...

Plaster cast moulds of detected voids in the house revealed the shape of ... The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried Pompeii, a Roman city near Naples, along with the nearby towns of ...

Prehistoric 'Pompeii' discovered: ... The ash moulds preserved each segment of their bodies, their legs and even the hair-like structures that ran along the appendages.

Trilobite ‘Pompeii’ reveals 500-million-year-old animals preserved in exquisite detail. ... Over time, their bodies decayed, leaving near-perfect three-dimensional hollow moulds within the rock. The ...