Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Those deposits also reveal signatures of multiple tsunamis during the Ordovician period, all of which can be best explained ...

The theory would explain the presence of an odd density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician period. A ring could have also contributed to one of the coldest periods ...

This ancient fossil belongs to a newly identified arthropod species, Lomankus edgecombei, from the Ordovician period. Arthropods, a diverse group ...

Lomankus edgecombei, a new arthropod species from the Ordovician has recently been discovered thanks to an international project featuring scientists from China, the UK and the US. The new species is ...

Life in the Ordovician period looked very different from today. The land was barren and devoid of life, but the sea was teeming. Squids and sea anemones, which can be seen in the illustration ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

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 ...

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