Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

Detail images of fossils from the Ordovician Period outcrop on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

Groundbreaking research refines China’s Ordovician paleogeography, revealing microcontinents as pivotal players in Earth’s ...

A variety of fossilized plant spores have been found in rocks from Western Australia that date from the early Ordovician era—approximately 480 million years ago. According to a paper published in ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years old. The closest sister group to the echinoids are the holothurians and the two groups must have ...

The theory would explain the presence of an odd density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician period. A ring could have also contributed to one of the coldest periods ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

A systematic re-evaluation of China’s Ordovician tectonic architecture, published in the Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition), proposes a refined model dividing the region into four mega ...