Clasper Appendages Discovered in Mid-Cambrian Trilobite Reveal Mating Behavior Secrets
By Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
May 6, 2022Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly SullivanFossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life. One thing though that’s very difficult to observe in the fossil record is an animal’s reproductive behavior. It takes a very uniquely preserved fossil to reveal the secrets behind reproductive strategies in some of…