Ordovician reefs were also home to large sea ... are more closely related to spiders and scorpions. A few species of these "living fossils" still survive today, such as along the eastern seaboard ...

A cataclysmic shift at the end of the Ordovician led to the disappearance of about 85% of species at a time when life was mostly limited to the seas. “Their link to those mass extinctions, especially ...

Million-Year-Old Exceptionally Rare Fossil Find Stuns Professor: 'Inside-Out, Legless, Headless Wonder' Fossil discoveries ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they ‘living fossils’, and how did they survive ...

A new species of fossil from 444 million years ... More information: A new euarthropod from the Soom Shale (Ordovician) Konservat-Lagerstätte, South Africa, with exceptional preservation of ...

Sue dates back to the Late Ordovician mass extinction (443 million years ago), when cold temperatures and glacier advancement eliminated nearly 85% of marine species. Researchers are still working ...

Some species grew to more than six feet (two meters ... positioned over the South Pole but the vast icecaps of the late Ordovician period melted almost to nothing. Sediments formed from massive ...

The Ordovician event is believed to have wiped out about 60% of invertebrate sea creatures when most life was in the ocean. The late Devonian extinction eliminated 70% of species, reshaping marine ...

The authors describe two transitional species of Sterictopathes from the Middle Ordovician of Shaanxi, China, bridging the fossil gaps and thereby elevating the genus Sterictopathes to a new ...

There are more than 20,000 known species. Our current research projects include: completing the description of one of the most diverse trilobite faunas in the world, the Ordovician trilobites of ...

A cataclysmic shift at the end of the Ordovician led to the disappearance of about 85% of species at a time when life was mostly limited to the seas. “Their link to those mass extinctions ...