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 ...

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who this week announced he'd unearthed a ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...

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Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This ancient fossil belongs to a newly identified arthropod species, Lomankus edgecombei, from the Ordovician period. Arthropods, a diverse group ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...