Linnea Hoover of WMAR 2 News takes us on an intriguing journey to the Ocean City shoreline, where volunteers are engaged in a vital conservation effort to save horseshoe crabs, creatures that have ...

The curious minds at What If transport us to the Paleozoic Era and envision what life would be like in this ancient period. Mullin fires back at Newsom over National Guard in Los Angeles: ‘Words ...

Geologists normally analyze fossils to determine Earth’s historical temperature. In particular, they look at ancient shelled creatures found on the seafloor. As precipitation happens, the change of ...

Carnegie Institution. "Unexpected exoskeleton remnants found in Paleozoic fossils." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 February 2011. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 02 / 110207115046.htm>.

"Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides New Tool For Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 October 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 10 / 081002172538.htm>.

One such tool is a new sediment curve (which shows where sediment-on-the-move is deposited), derived from sediments of the Paleozoic Era 542 to 251 million years ago, scientists report in this ...

The Bivalvia have undergone two principal adaptive radiations since their appearance in the Ordovician. The initial, Early Paleozoic radiation gave rise to epifaunal and primitive infaunal groups and ...

J. John Sepkoski, Jr., A Kinetic Model of Phanerozoic Taxonomic Diversity. III. Post-Paleozoic Families and Mass Extinctions, Paleobiology, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring ...