The Paleozoic Era, which ran from 541 million to 251.9 ... Coral reefs flourished, providing shelter for fish and shelled creatures, such as nautiloids and ammonoids. Modern conifers and ginkgo ...

So it's often overlooked as a time of primitive and boring creatures. But the fact is: the Paleozoic Era was truly a make it or break it time for life on Earth. At the beginning of the Paleozoic ...

So, buckle up your imaginary diving gear and get ready to be amazed by the extraordinary creatures that once thrived beneath the waves. The Paleozoic era, known as the age of ‘ancient life ...

These spiral-shelled creatures have hardly changed since they first appeared over 500 million years ago during the early Paleozoic era (541 to 252 million years ago). Found in the Western Pacific ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants ... organisms was stoked by oceans teeming with tiny planktonic creatures. Waiting at the other end of the food chain were the fearsome ...

If you could have been there, somewhere in Siberia at the end of the Paleozoic Era nearly 252 million years ... you would have been among the few creatures to survive what paleontologists now ...

By Jack Tamisiea When the going got tough in the Paleozoic Era, trilobites rolled up ... smothered an entire community of the scuttling sea creatures. Discovered by the paleontologist Charles ...

Researchers reconstruct biodiversity changes during the early Paleozoic Era. Marine biodiversity underwent large and abrupt changes during the early Paleozoic Era. However, the temporal resolution ...

This Age of Reptiles was a spectacular prehistoric epic, and it all took place in a single era: the Mesozoic. Reptiles emerged from the Paleozoic as humble creatures, but in time, they grew to ...

Little is known about Paleozoic creatures’ parental prowess. But a newly uncovered 300-million-year-old fossil might be the earliest evidence of a parent, well, acting like a parent. Researchers ...