Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...

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 researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and 443.8 million years ago ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the Ordovician Period, 505 to 438 million years ago. Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years old. The closest sister group to the echinoids are the holothurians and the two groups must have ...