Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record ...

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

Ordovician limestone section in Sweden where a fossil meteorite was found. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

These are bedding surfaces covered in marine invertebrate fossils from the Late Ordovician (Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada). Anticosti Island preserves one of the most ...

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

3 min read During the Ordovician period ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have been found suggest they were finned, eel-like creatures ...

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

is one of the world’s richest and most diverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period. The amateurs who came across these fossils were over the moon when they realised the importance of ...

Eric Monceret and Sylvie Monceret-Goujon found one of the world’s richest and most biodiverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period (488-444 million years ago) in southern France.

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...