The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

Long before the dawn of humans, dinosaurs, insects or even trees, a cascade of unfortunate events threatened to end life on earth. During the Ordovician Period, around 485 to 444 million years ago, ...

A time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World. The end of the Ordovician period was a pretty terrible time to be alive. I don't know if you remember it ...

The fossil record of mass extinctions older than 300 million years is a bit sketchy, as life existed only in the sea at the time. The end-Ordovician mass extinction correlates with the Suordakh ...

The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of 445 million years ago.

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

The “Big Five” mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...