An international team of scientists has reconstructed the Earth's climate belts of the late Ordovician Period, between 460 and 445 million years ago. The findings show that these ancient climate ...

Roughly 445 million years ago, around 85 percent of all marine species disappeared in a geologic flash known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old Date: February 8, 2008 Source: Royal Ontario Museum Summary: Few modern animals are as deserving of the title "living fossil" as the lowly ...

The features are layers of limestone sedimentary rock in Sweden, China and Russia that contain 100 to 1,000 times more meteorite debris than normally seen and are 465.7 million years old.

Previous research has yet to determine the cause for either the late Devonian or Ordovician mass extinctions, which occurred 372 and 445 million years ago, respectively. The Ordovician extinction ...

A few million years following the period of increased meteor strikes, about 445 million years ago, there was a dramatic decrease in Earth’s global temperatures known as the Hirnantian Age.

These vertebrates are likely to be products of what is called the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (around 485 million to 445 million years ago) — a sequel to an episode of ...