Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician.

The discovery of a 480-million-year-old sponge in China has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of early reef ecosystems and biomineralization. As published in the journal PNAS, Chinese ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense ... Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones) such as humans belong.

Single-celled algae called acritarchs and the Ediacaran animals vanish from the fossil record at the end of the Vendian, the period that closes the Proterozoic era. If they were wiped out by an ...

They were especially important during the middle Paleozoic era (from the late Middle Ordovician to Devonian ... insights into the early biomineralization strategies of ancient animals. South China is ...

Exactly which animals were affected ... The Phanerozoic Eon is divided into the three eras. The oldest is the Paleozoic Era, which means ‘ancient life’ and occurred between 541 and 252 ...