The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

"preserves critical evidence of the evolution of life in the oceans 450 million years ago," co-author Derek Briggs said in a news release. The density of pyrite also means the fool's gold material ...

Belonging to the extinct class of predatory arthropods known as megacheirans, this discovery demonstrates that this group was still evolving 450 million years ago. Megacheirans thrived during the ...

The previously known earliest fossil fungi were from Scotland and Wisconsin and date back 410 million and 450 million years ago, respectively. A team of paleontologists looked at samples from shale ...

Because of their origin 450 million years ago, horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.

Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. They grow everywhere, from the world’s harshest landscapes to cracks in the sidewalk.

A Texas-born princess has been evicted from a villa in Rome built more than 450 years ago and features a mural ... court-mandated eviction from the $533 million residence, according to the ...