The Ordovician Period stands as a critical chapter in Earth's geological history, with carbon isotope records serving as both ...

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Saturn is known for its dazzling ring system, which is the most complex of all the planets in our solar system. The rings are made of ice and rock and can even be seen through a small telescope. A new ...

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet in the distant past. Scientists studying the geology of the Ordovician ...

A research project undertaken by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Institute of Geoscience (IGEO, CSIC-UCM) identified various marine worms from the Palaeozoic era (Ordovician period) ...

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The Ordovician period offers a detailed window into early marine ecosystems and climatic transitions, with palynology and microfossil biostratigraphy serving as key tools in reconstructing these ...

Paleontologists recognize five big mass extinctions in the fossil record. At the end of the Ordovician period, about 443 million years ago, an estimated 86 percent of all marine species disappeared.

An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...