The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

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

Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...

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

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

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

This ancient fossil belongs to a newly identified arthropod species, Lomankus edgecombei, from the Ordovician period. Arthropods, a diverse group ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...