Celebrity fossil reveals all for science
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science`s most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. Today, this extinct species provides important clues for science in several ways.