is one of the world’s richest and most diverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period. The amateurs who came across these fossils were over the moon when they realised the importance of ...

Fossil echinoderms, including the common Cambrian and Ordovician echinoderms figured here (Fig. 1 from Deline, et al., 2021; request permission to use here) have a rich and diverse fossil record.

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 world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

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, ...

A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring ...

The main part of the book is devoted to assemblages of intact fossil crinoids, which are described in their geological setting in twenty-three chapters ranging from the Ordovician to the Tertiary. The ...

Fossils can be found in surprising places and they can tell us about the past. We call all of the fossils we have found the fossil record. This record shows us how living things have changed from ...

The latter left one of its teeth impaled in the sea cow’s body. By analyzing the fossil, unearthed in Venezuela, researchers were able to piece together how the sea cow, which belonged to an ...

Two incredibly rare fossils found on Scotland's Isle of Skye are rewriting our understanding of how mammals evolved. While modern small mammals live as little as a year, one of the first to roam ...

“This mass extinction event in the Ordovician, this happened hundreds ... in Oklahoma but have higher water deposits and fewer fossils. Wright said Anticosti Island is like a book, much like ...