3 min read During the Ordovician period ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have been found suggest they were finned, eel-like creatures ...

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 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, ...

This era of intense bombardment, known as the Ordovician impact spike, may have resulted from meteorites falling from the ring rather than flying in from space, which would explain the strange ...

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

This Maymester program will introduce students to evolutionary principles, the science of deep time, how fossils form, critical thinking in biology, introduction to Ordovician-era fossils ... Students ...

Anyone who gets six of the 12 activities on a passport stamped will receive a free 450-million-year-old Ordovician fossil. Young children will take home a small toy dinosaur from the Dino Dig.

“This mass extinction event in the Ordovician, this happened hundreds ... conduct fieldwork, identify and collect fossils that help give a better picture of what ecosystems were like before ...