Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

By the mid-Devonian, Earth's earliest known tetrapod Tiktaalik roseae had crawled out of the sea. However, the Devonian period also saw some of the most significant extinctions in Earth's history, ...

I call the Late Devonian my favorite mass extinction primarily because it shows that humans are far from the only organism to remake the Earth. Before the Late Devonian mass extinction, life on ...

Earth’s marine species, especially those at the tropics, were in trouble again about 419 million to 365 million years ago. This series of mass extinctions during the Devonian period eventually ...

The Devonian Period, 419 to 358 million years ago, was one of the most turbulent times in Earth’s past and was marked by at least six significant marine extinctions, including one of the five ...

The primary cause behind the Devonian and Ordovician mass extinction events is not fully understood, but both of them have also been linked to the depletion of Earth's ozone layer.

They believe a supernova explosion close to Earth could be to blame for both the late Devonian and Ordovician extinction events, which occurred 372 and 445 million years ago respectively. Skip to ...

Two of Earth's largest mass extinction events were likely triggered by the fallout from two supernovae in nearby space. ... and the end of the Devonian, about 372 million years ago. ...