Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

You know that unsettling feeling you get when you're swimming in a freshwater body, and some underwater plant grazes your ...

Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...

SEE ALSO: Hubble sees mini galaxies surrounding Andromeda are pretty wild A fossil of a type of brachiopod ... has yet to determine the cause for either the late Devonian or Ordovician mass ...

However, by the early Ordovician period, Megacheirans were in decline, making L. edgecombei one of the last surviving species ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million ... element of the benthos throughout the Palaeozoic and are never common as fossils. Although all had a ...

There are around 800 extant species and the group has a long and detailed fossil record stretching back about 450 million years ago to the Late Ordovician Period. They belong to the Echinoidea, one of ...

After retirement, Sloan plans to move to Winona, where his wife Sally works as a professor of mathematics. He said he intends to study seashell fossils in southeastern Minnesota from the Ordovician ...

In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ... For over a hundred years after the discovery of the first Prototaxites fossils, scientists argued about whether they were fungi, trees ...

Fossils of marine animals preserved in rocks formed in shallow ... and occurred around the same time as a global cooling trend during the Ordovician period, along with an increase in seawater ...