Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record ...

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 Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

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, ...

The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the dissolved calcium carbonate in the seawater to form internal skeletons ...

A huge 75-foot-tall square boulder deep in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains has been baffling people since it was discovered.

The 452-million-year-old limestone slab shown here captures ... echinoderms such as sea stars and sea urchins, the Ordovician sea lily fossil and modern basket star shown here have a body plan ...

They covered all known examples, ranging from the oldest fossil corals to those living in modern oceans ... continuing down to the 'Silurian', from which the Ordovician had not yet been separated. A ...

Fortunately, people who have sharp eyes may be able to spot the fossils on the limestone walls ... to visualise an undersea mountain during the Ordovician era, while a rock that looked like ...

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.

Guwahati: Investigation inside a limestone block in hilly Meghalaya's South Garo Hills led a team of Geological Survey of India (GSI) experts to stumble on marine whale fossils, which is believed ...