It’s a Paleozoic party! We’re throwing it back 530 million years.When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era ...

In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician ...

After Keppie (2000). The Appalachian orogen of North America is divisible with some controversy into five tectonolithologic zones which range in age from Late Precambrian through the Early Paleozoic ...

In a geologic instant—over the last few centuries, merely—the unfathomably long and patient work of Earth is being undone.

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

The Devonian, part of the Paleozoic era, is otherwise known as the Age of Fishes, as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that ...

Unconformity between the metamorphic Proterozoic basement complex and the Paleozoic sediment strata. Research led by C.B. Keller in 2019 first proposed that widespread erosion by continental ice ...

A new book of natural history essays co-written by a University of Kansas paleontologist has been published by Columbia ...

At Atlanta, the majority of drilling to date has been focused around the Atlanta resource zone, which represents just one ...