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 ...

FROM 508 MILLION YEARS AGO TO TODAYPreserved in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, the worm Canadia spinosa was part of an explosion in biodiversity during the Cambrian period that gave birth ...

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

The glacial outwash then forms an outwash plain ... two-sided jigsaw blade. In life, the rhabadosome was suspended from a "float" by a slender thread called a nema. Late Ordovician Period - The ...

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

The theory would explain the presence of an odd density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician period ... ways over the course of its life. It’s been hot and fiery.

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

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they 'living fossils', and how did they survive ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Some "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved from a famous fossil site in New York State, USA – and best of all? They're ...

Until recently, scientists thought arthropods flourished during the Cambrian Period (538 million to 485 ... "preserves critical evidence of the evolution of life in the oceans 450 million years ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.