Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

AbstractThe temporally and geographically scattered Phanerozoic record of methane-seep deposits hampers reconstruction of the evolution of life in chemosynthesis-based ecosystems. Unlike modern, ...

Brachiopods might look like a mollusc, but they are actually more closely related to bryozoans (lace corals) and are in their very own phylum of animals. They are commonly known as lamp shells, ...

A discovery of 470-million-year-old brachiopod fossils has been made in Zigui County, Hubei Province, offering new insights into the ancient ecosystems of the Ordovician period. The find is expected ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

Hana Jurikova receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life ...

Dozens of First-Day Hikes are scheduled across Wisconsin, including Whitefish Dunes State Park in Door County.

Reconstructions of some Meso–Cenozoic brachiopods, showing adaptations to certain environments. Credit: Shunyi Shi A new study indicates that despite significant evolutionary innovations ...

Many of the things you learn in elementary school are all the “state” things, like the state bird, state flower, or state tree. Thanks to our friends at Dinosaur World in Cave City just north of ...

Honoring a bird, waving a flag at the Capitol and putting a motto on a road sign are not activities unique to Kentucky, but the Bluegrass State does have some twists of its own when it comes to state ...

This valuable study examines the evolution of the pillars in the shell architecture of organo-phosphatic brachiopods. The phylogenetic implications of this shell structure in relation to other early ...