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Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ago, the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year ...

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After retirement, Sloan plans to move to Winona, where his wife Sally works as a professor of mathematics. He said he intends to study seashell fossils in southeastern Minnesota from the Ordovician ...

Palaeoecology is the study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods. Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species and their environment ...

Well, here’s the thing: most palaeontological studies of this period have concentrated on the fossil record left by organisms with hard parts (told you it’d be important).

These remarkable arthropods first appeared in the fossil record during the Late Ordovician period, approximately 445 million years ago, predating dinosaurs by over 200 million years. By the time ...

During National Library Week 2025 (April 6-12), the American Library Association released data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries during 2024.

The Book of Henry deserves a few points for ambition, but its tonal juggling act -- and a deeply maudlin twist -- may leave viewers gaping in disbelief rather than choking back tears. Read Critics ...

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Ukiyo-e: The Origins of Creative Printing Ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” were popular Edo-period woodblock prints and paintings depicting entertainment districts and daily life scenes.