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 ...

Earth is the only planet we know of that has ever had a fire. While there may be volcanoes pushing out hot magma on the ...

Yet, researchers analyzing 21 craters from the Ordovician period found an unusual pattern: all were located within 30 degrees of the equator. Statistically, such clustering is improbable ...

Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the Ordovician Period, 505 to 438 million years ago. Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that ...

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 ...

In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic relationship with liverworts, the earliest plants. “Ultimately, fungi helped plants move away from being these marginal tiny little things on ...

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 ...

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 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 ...