Paleontologists have uncovered a 444-million-year-old fossil with remarkably intact soft tissues, such as muscles, ...

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the Ordovician Period, 505 to 438 million years ago. Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that ...

Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides ...

finding fossils and then trying to figure out how they lived, what they tell us about ancient life and evolution on Earth." More information: A new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician ...

Ordovician reefs were also home to large sea ... A few species of these "living fossils" still survive today, such as along the eastern seaboard of the United States, where each spring horseshoe ...

Within it are several fossilized marine creatures from the Ordovician Period, 488.3 million-443.7 million years ago. Such fossils are found across the Himalayas, and finds include trilobites ...

Detail images of fossils from the Ordovician Period outcrop on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. “Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been ...

potentially [the fossils] provide a sort of intermediate between the Cambrian record and the later Ordovician records.” Plants that live on land are thought to have ...