Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

The largest extinction events define a change in era. The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 million years ago marks the largest mass extinction in the history of the planet, which ...

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.

Titled "Ancient Life," it tells the story of what life was like in what is now New Mexico 300 million years ago in the Paleozoic Era, when it was near the Equator, next to multiple seas ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas and the first primitive plants began to appear on land—before the ...

Marrellomorphs are one of the rarest arthropod groups in the world. The discovery of a new fossil sheds light on this enigmatic creature.