Ancient fossils unearthed in Morocco reveal parasitic worms burrowing into mollusc shells approximately 480 million years ago ...

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.

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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 ...

1 Natural Gas Research Institute of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group Co., Ltd., Xi’an, China 2 PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an, China The core samples of this study were collected from ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

Brachiopods were evolving in new directions but this did not turn into evolutionary success in terms of the numbers of species, researchers have found. Brachiopods were evolving in new directions but ...

This valuable study examines the evolution of the pillars in the shell architecture of organo-phosphatic brachiopods. The phylogenetic implications of this shell structure in relation to other early ...