a catskill coral reef; exploring the bed of a preadamite sea. the geologist among the greene county mountains--seeking and finding fossils--lunching amid relics of the silurian age.

Fossils of intact animals are more compelling, but vanishingly rare; before 2009, all published examples of more-or-less complete Silurian jawed fishes could be counted on the fingers of one hand 2.

The fossils date between 436 and 439 million years ago, during an epoch known as the Silurian Period, in which Earth experienced some dramatic events (such as developing an ozone layer) ...

A newly discovered fossil “treasure hoard” dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first ...

It comes in the form of small plant fossils preserved as charcoal, which were unearthed by researchers near the town of Ludlow on the Welsh borders. The plant remains date to the Silurian Period, ...