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.

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 ...

Discover some of the fascinating fossils you can find around Britain, what they look like and where to look for them. Take a look at these different kinds of fossils. What do they tell you about how ...

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 ...

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, ...

potentially [the fossils] provide a sort of intermediate between the Cambrian record and the later Ordovician records.” Plants that live on land are thought to have ... Experts from the Women’s Brain ...