Earlier this summer, on a family vacation to visit some family in Fernandina Beach, Fla., I rediscovered one of my first loves: looking for fossils. It turns out that area is well-known for finding ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how the five mass ...

Named after a geologic era of abundance and transformation, Ordovician was built with a vision to create opportunity in one of Panama’s most naturally beautiful, yet historically overlooked regions.

Understanding how ancient species arranged themselves in space is a key puzzle in paleoecology, but direct evidence of how prehistoric organisms used their body structures to regulate spacing has long ...

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Understanding major evolutionary transitions requires distinguishing true biological signals from preservation artifacts. Our research challenges conventional interpretations of the Great Ordovician ...

† MLR Key Laboratory of Isotope Geology, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China ‡ State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth some ...

Reconstructions of some Meso–Cenozoic brachiopods, showing adaptations to certain environments. Credit: Shunyi Shi A new study indicates that despite significant evolutionary innovations ...

If you were asked to name the heroes of Earth’s evolution, chances are worms wouldn’t top the list. Yet, new research suggests these humble burrowers played a pivotal role in one of the most ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a descriptor for Brachiopods classification by using a combination between curvature and Fourier descriptors. The curvature properties provide an apparently ...