Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

Fool's gold is known for being a deceptive little mineral, but that hasn't always been true. A discovery made in New York ...

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 ...

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, ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

These rings seem to have existed during the Ordovician Period when the Earth's life forms and plate tectonics witnessed significant changes after a peak in meteorite strikes, a study published in ...

A group of Earth scientists have asked the question “Did Earth ever have a ring?” And surprisingly the evidence points to ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years old. The closest sister group to the echinoids are the holothurians and the two groups must have ...

Seeing my son off to school at Foxfield Station on a morning in January, I was struck by the look of the mountains in the ...

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 ...

Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818, Warszawa, Poland. Faculty of Biology, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, ...