Sinoceras chinense is a kind of extinct cephalopod mollusk that flourished in the late Ordovician. It is regarded as the index fossil of the Upper Ordovician Pagoda Formation on the Yangtze Platform of South China, with a ...
Archaeology
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About 466 Mya, a major impact event took place between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Space dust spread all across the Solar System, and some of it was found near Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in the south of Sweden. An ...
Archaeology
Oct 3, 2019
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When Earth's species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more nutrients in the oceans. But it took ...
Archaeology
Aug 15, 2019
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A clutch of marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern Portugal that lived between 470 and 459 million years ago is filling a gap in understanding evolution during the Middle Ordovician period.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 4, 2019
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Ancient sea-floor dwellers are providing new clues about how mass extinctions steer life's evolutionary history, according to scientists.
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2019
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For decades, scientists have conducted research centered around the five major mass extinctions that have shaped the world we live in. The extinctions date back more than 450 million years with the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...
Earth Sciences
May 21, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with an international team of geologists, have discovered an enigmatic fossil of a 450 million year-old creature resembling a tiny ice-cream cone.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2018
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During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the Ordovician glaciations took place. A ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2016
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Fossil hunters now have a mobile app to help them identify specimens in the field.
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2016
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Throughout the past 600 million years there have been five major mass extinction events that devastated life on Earth. While some of these events are very well studied, such as the killer asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 5, 2015
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