It’s a Paleozoic party! We’re throwing it back 530 million years.When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era ...

In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Modeling indicates that the development of major glaciations during the Paleozoic Era (roughly 540 million to 250 million ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

A group of researchers discovered a new species of chimera, or ghost shark, a cartilaginous fish related to sharks and rays ...

In Guizhou Province, China, a cliff named Chan Da Ya has intrigued locals and tourists with its ability to produce large ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas and the first primitive plants began to appear on land—before the ...

A new book of natural history essays co-written by a University of Kansas paleontologist has been published by Columbia ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...