The University of Birmingham and University of Bristol researchers found that these ancient reptiles were ancestors of ...

NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM NEWS RELEASE Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and ...

are actually a distinct phylum of marine animals that first appeared during the early Cambrian period, approximately 540 million years ago. These shelled creatures reached their peak diversity during ...

Around 480 million years ago, in the Paleozoic Era, shallow seas covered what ... that doesn't mean that animals didn't live there… And thanks to the incredible preservation at Gray ...

Millions of years ago, during the Paleozoic Era, the area we now know as Arizona was not characterized ... of sedimentation that occurred over millions of years as marine organisms accumulated, died, ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

Unlike the other plants and animals on this list ... Since the monoplacophorans of the Paleozoic Era lay at the root of mollusk evolution, these living species have a lot to tell us about this ...

Pangea formed around 335 million years ago during the late Paleozoic era and dominated the planet until it began ... and the distribution of plants and animals across the globe. As Pangea started to ...

This is because organisms metabolize lighter nitrogen more quickly than ... The study serves as the start for a more detailed investigation into the nutrient cycle of the Paleozoic era, which includes ...

In reference to the Paleozoic Era, Trilobites are arguably the most successful invertebrates. They were also among the most incredible animals that lived during this time. These armored arthropods ...

But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were apex predators that could grow larger than people in size. “They were ...