These first steps toward life on land were cut short by the freezing conditions that gripped the planet toward the end of the Ordovician. This resulted in the second largest mass extinction of all ...

Another critical area of research focuses on the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), which is ... that led to the loss of biodiversity at the end of the Ordovician. Additionally, the role ...

The extinction event, known as the end-Ordovician, was one of the five biggest of the past half billion years. It coincided with extreme changes in climate, in global sea levels, and in ocean ...

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped ... by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to ...