Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the world's largest mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, from the Cretaceous period.

The Ordovician is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era that follows the Cambrian and precedes the Silurian, spanning roughly 485 to 444 million years ago. It is characterized by extensive ...

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...

NEW HAVEN -- Thousands of animal fossils, many of them representing species never seen before, have been unearthed in Morocco by Yale scientists Peter Van Roy and Derek Briggs, it was announced last ...

New Haven, Conn. — Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders, ...

The creature locals now call “Godzillus” did not roar out of a movie screen but out of Ordovician rock, lifted piece by piece from a Kentucky hillside by a determined hobbyist. What began as a routine ...