Local natural history group Rhayader by Nature is delighted to present a talk by a leading international palaeontologist this ...

Eric Monceret and Sylvie Monceret-Goujon found one of the world’s richest and most biodiverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period (488-444 million years ago) in southern France.

The first fossil record we have of fire comes from the Middle Ordovician period, billions of years later. In terms of fire, there is a sweet spot. Any lower than 13 percent oxygen, and plant ...

The theory would explain the presence of an odd density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician period. A ring could have also contributed to one of the coldest periods ...

Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ago, the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year ...

The latter was home to nautiloids, corals, bryozoans, and brachiopods — clearly, these are not dinosaurs. Then, during the Ordovician period, the region became a landmass, only to drop under the water ...

After retirement, Sloan plans to move to Winona, where his wife Sally works as a professor of mathematics. He said he intends to study seashell fossils in southeastern Minnesota from the Ordovician ...

Explore the hidden gems of Wisconsin - from breathtaking landmarks to historical sites that highlight the state's unique ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.