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Powerful imaging pulls lost ocean life from 445-million-year-old stone and exposes a hidden extinction record

  • April 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Powerful imaging pulls lost ocean life from 445-million-year-old stone and exposes a hidden extinction record
New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously unknown to science. The discovery may provide us with fresh insights into the Late Ordovician, one of the largest mass extinction events in our planet's history.

Originally published at Phys.org

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