During this period, the average species extinction rate drastically increased to 71.6% per 100 kyr. This study quantitatively demonstrates the dominant role of the rate of climate change in ...

Plants likely colonized land during the middle Ordovician Period around 470 million years ago, while animals are believed to have hauled themselves onto land roughly 100 million years later.

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Discover the Mesolithic—the short but crucial period after the last Ice Age that shaped human culture and technology. With megafauna gone and Homo sapiens thriving, different regions entered ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China’s Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

Scientists studying the geology of the Ordovician Period about 466 million years ago report evidence that Earth's ring system created a telltale pattern of impact craters, and it may also explain ...

The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - more than 80% of species in the oceans died out. But could you ...

And—according to a study recently published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters —during an era known as the Ordovician period, it may have once had rings. Seriously.

Around 460 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, Earth experienced two very odd events that have left researchers scratching their heads.

A new study has proposed the hypothesis that 'Earth also had a ring during the Ordovician period , about 488.3 million to 443.7 million years ago.' ...