All articles tagged with "Mass-Extinction"
Everything about Dunkleosteus: size, armour, bite force, hunting, evolution, the Late Devonian extinction, and the strange facts that make Dunkleosteus terrelli one of the most formidable predators that ever lived.
Everything about ammonites: shell shape, suture patterns, size range, 340-million-year fossil record, closest living relatives, the K-Pg extinction that killed them, and the cultural legends that grew up around their spiral shells.
Everything about trilobites: their 270 million year Paleozoic run, three-lobed bodies, mineralised calcite eyes, 22,000 described species, defensive enrolment, and their disappearance in the end-Permian mass extinction.
Everything about Cameroceras: the giant Ordovician nautiloid with a straight conical shell up to six metres long, apex predator of 470-million-year-old seas, its role in end-Ordovician extinction, anatomy, diet, and why it may be the largest mollusc ever.
Everything about brachiopods: lophophore feeding, chitin-phosphate shells, the 540-million-year fossil record, the end-Permian mass extinction that wiped out 95%, and Lingula - the living fossil genus that has survived half a billion years largely unchanged.
