A recent and unexpected discovery at Penn Dixie has provided new insight into the evolutionary history of an unusual group of fossils. In April 2023, two off-duty members of Penn Dixie's educational ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron ...

A clear comparative example is Eramoscorpius brucensis, which is a Silurian scorpion from Canada that was described in 2015.

Step into a prehistoric world with this fascinating look at the Devonian Period, about 400 million years ago. Discover giant plants, early forests, and bizarre aquatic life that defined this alien yet ...

New research reveals a chain of environmental disasters. These took place in what is today's South Africa, during an ancient time period called the Early-Middle Devonian. The crises led to the ...

Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of ...

Terrestrial plants may have caused the End-Devonian Extinction, but its origin is still shrouded in mystery. Life on earth reached a milestone during the Devonian period, 420 to 360 million years ago.

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During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...