The gas giants in the outer solar system are the homes to ring systems today, but almost half a billion years ago, our planet ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

"These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period ... second largest mass extinction of all time ended the period. Most of the world's landmasses came together to create the supercontinent of Gondwana ...

Ancient artifacts can tell the story of humanity and how we evolved technologically, spiritually, and emotionally. However, sometimes archaeologists find ...

from those briefly appraising the Ordovician World to those more comprehensively surveying the diversification patterns of the main Ordovician taxonomic groups. The chapter ends with some closing ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

Due to the abundance of life in the Ordovician ocean, southwestern Ohio is one of the best Ordovician fossil collecting sites in the world. The great number of fossils shows the nature of life in ...