* Astronomy

Title: Preservation of the middle Ordovician Winneshiek Shale in a probable impact crater Authors: MCKAY, Robert1, LIU, Huaibao1, WITZKE, Brian J.2, FRENCH, Bevan M.3, and BRIGGS, Derek E.G.4, (1) Iowa Geological & Water Survey, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 109 Trowbridge Hall,...

Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Palaeontologist Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harboured one very large and now very mysterious organism. Despite its size, no one has ever found a fossil of this "monster" until its discovery...

Whenever you visit a beach resort or sea side town, you will also find plenty of sea shells for sale. But a group of scientists went looking in a very different location They were rewarded with the discovery of marine fossils in land locked Sichuan province. The fossils are the remains of ancient sea l...

An asteroid collision showered the earth with meteorites for millions of years. An enormous collision between two asteroids created a meteorite shower that rained down on earth for millions of years. Meteorites of up to 1.5 kilometres in size impacted with the earth. German researchers have no...

Half-a-billion years ago, as an explosion of life was starting to produce diverse new forms, the Antrim Plateau Volcanics of northern Australia began spewing massive amounts of lava. Before it was over, lava floods had buried almost a fifth of Australia's area today. The newly identified K...

More than half a billion years old, the fossils of the Burgess Shale preserves an intriguing glimpse of early life on Earth. They were first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This group of fossils takes its name from the Burgess Shale rock forma...

Powys fossils 'shed new light' on ocean community evolution Scientists believe they have made a remarkable discovery of fossils said to be more than 450 million years old in a disused Powys quarry. They think they are of a kind never before discovered. The well-preserved organisms from the Ordovic...

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Ordovician Ordovician Winneshiek Shale (Preview)	Meteorite News	4	6138	Mar 6 03:18 2013 by Blobrana
Title: Preservation of the middle Ordovician Winneshiek Shale in a probable impact crater Authors: MCKAY, Robert1, LIU, Huaibao1, WITZKE, Brian J.2, FRENCH, Bevan M.3, and BRIGGS, Derek E.G.4, (1) Iowa Geological & Water Survey, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 109 Trowbridge Hall,...
Ordovician Ordovician Sea Fossil (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1475	Apr 25 09:26 2012 by Blobrana
Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Palaeontologist Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harboured one very large and now very mysterious organism. Despite its size, no one has ever found a fossil of this "monster" until its discovery...
Ordovician The Ordovician period (Preview)	Trash	8	7040	Feb 10 16:01 2017 by Blobrana
Whenever you visit a beach resort or sea side town, you will also find plenty of sea shells for sale. But a group of scientists went looking in a very different location They were rewarded with the discovery of marine fossils in land locked Sichuan province. The fossils are the remains of ancient sea l...
Asteroid Ordovician Asteroid collision 470 million years ago ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	10	15463	Jan 27 13:47 2017 by Blobrana
An asteroid collision showered the earth with meteorites for millions of years. An enormous collision between two asteroids created a meteorite shower that rained down on earth for millions of years. Meteorites of up to 1.5 kilometres in size impacted with the earth. German researchers have no...
Life Ordovician Toyonian mass extinction event (Preview)	General news	8	11886	Apr 23 14:06 2012 by Blobrana
Half-a-billion years ago, as an explosion of life was starting to produce diverse new forms, the Antrim Plateau Volcanics of northern Australia began spewing massive amounts of lava. Before it was over, lava floods had buried almost a fifth of Australia's area today. The newly identified K...
Ordovician Burgess Shale (Preview)	Events	7	8000	Aug 29 22:31 2012 by Blobrana
More than half a billion years old, the fossils of the Burgess Shale preserves an intriguing glimpse of early life on Earth. They were first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This group of fossils takes its name from the Burgess Shale rock forma...
Ordovician Powys fossils (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1172	Dec 20 15:02 2011 by Blobrana
Powys fossils 'shed new light' on ocean community evolution Scientists believe they have made a remarkable discovery of fossils said to be more than 450 million years old in a disused Powys quarry. They think they are of a kind never before discovered. The well-preserved organisms from the Ordovic...