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 ...

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

Toting buckets and nets, roughly 30 volunteers made the trek down into the muddy pit that is the drained power canal to ...

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.

Very abundant during the Paleozoic Era, they do still exist today, but in much smaller numbers. The interior soft parts of brachiopods are not preserved, only the hard valves are preserved as fossils.

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

This insect goes all the way back to the Paleozoic era. In fact, silverfish haven’t changed much in 400 million years and are found all over the world. Studies even show that they’ve been with ...

Oceans had much less oxygen at the start of the Paleozoic era than they do today. To better understand how pyrite behaves in low-oxygen conditions, Gomes and her researchers measured the mineral from ...

the Paleozoic era. This ability has countless practical implications, of course. But for the majority of us, in our everyday lives, its chief effect is to increase our access to awe. How ...