3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas and the first primitive plants began to appear on land—before the ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

It significantly shaped the two periods of time that made up the end of the Paleozoic era. First, it led to the creation of iconic "coal forests" full of giant insects in the Carboniferous period ...

Lake Champlain's Isle La Motte is rich in marine fossils, some of which are 450 million years old. Robert Lyons Nelson Fisk, who was Vermont's lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1898, was also the ...

As mentioned by TheGodskin's post on Reddit, the Crucible Knights Ordovis, Siluria, and Devonia are named after the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian periods of the Paleozoic era respectively.

The operator described the discovery as 'significant' to natural gas exploration in the Paleozoic granite buried hills in Beibu Gulf basin. Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal.