If that were so, how would we be able to prove it—or disprove it? This is the crux of the Silurian hypothesis, a fascinating thought experiment that appeared in a study published in 2018 in the ...

So far, so not science. However, in 2018 two University of Cambridge scientists named their paper The Silurian hypothesis: ...

So far, so not science. However, in 2018 two University of Cambridge scientists named their paper – The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the ...

The series of extinctions that occurred during the Ordovician and Silurian periods between 445 and 415 million years ago wiped out as much as 85 percent of all animal species on Earth. It was the ...

That is the astounding premise that led Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute, to write an article in 2018 proposing ...

So in June of this year, Bodnar and Gupta teamed up with Nikhil Shankar and Mark Baum to launch Silurian, a startup offering AI-driven, rapidly generated weather forecasts. The company ...

More information: Russell D.C. Bicknell et al, Novel pterygotid sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian of Gondwana, Gondwana Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2024.08.005 ...

In the artwork, the Silurian landscape is dominated by an enigmatic organism called Prototaxites The oldest evidence of wildfire has been identified in South Wales. It takes the form of some truly ...