Learn more about the time period that took place 488 ... group-living animals that built coral-like structures. Ordovician reefs were also home to large sea lilies, relatives of sea stars.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been found ... As there are no fossils of these animals from this period of time, this is ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who this week announced he'd unearthed a ...

Arthropoda - The phylum Arthropoda includes invertebrate animals such as insects ... Late Ordovician Period - The Ordovician Period refers to the interval of geologic time from approximately 505 to ...

“This is the first time that life got big ... Arthropods were the most diverse animal group in the Cambrian period and the Ordovician period that followed. The 452-million-year-old limestone ...

Arthropods are invertebrate animals that today include insects ... that although megacheirans lived during the Cambrian ...

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Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

Megacheirans like Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period (538-485 million years ago) but were thought to be ...

Dinosaur eggs:Smallest ever found discovered in China "There are more species of arthropod alive than any other group of animals ... continued to evolve during a time when scientists had believed ...