We often take it for granted that our neighborhood will be where we remember it is at the end of the day. In reality, the ...

On the sidewalks of Inverness, remnants of ancient fish from the Devonian period have been spotted by a keen eye. Their discovery casts new light on the geological history of this Scottish ...

Learn about the time period that took place 416 to 359 million years ago. 4 min read When the Devonian period dawned about 416 million years ago the planet was changing its appearance. The great ...

The crime scene The Devonian period, which lasted from about 419 million to 359 million years ago, culminated in a mass extinction event.

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month — offering a glimpse of how plants grew ...

Extended periods of marine anoxia — a lack of oxygen in the water — characterized the Late Devonian Mass Extinction. The two most pronounced periods are known as the Kellwasser event, which occurred ...

Academy of Natural Sciences’ photographer Ramon Torres “There is no better place to tell the story of the Devonian Period than the Academy,” Daeschler said in a news release.

On an expedition to Greenland in 1987, this University of Cambridge paleontologist unearthed remains of a creature from the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) that skulked around swamps ...

About 380 million years ago, late in the Devonian Period, the ocean waters that covered what is now Ohio were home to a fish that scientists named Dunkleosteus .

The now-extinct Tiktaalik lived during the Devonian period (aka the Age of Fishes) of the Paleozoic geological era. It may not be as sexy as the age of dinosaurs’ Mesozoic era, which came much later, ...

The oldest fossil forest in Asia which existed between 359m and 419m years ago, has been discovered by scientists. Dating back to the Devonian period, a geological era known as the age of fishes ...

Indeed, the discovery of even a few plutonium-244 atoms in late Devonian fossils would be corroborating evidence for the supernova hypothesis. There are other extinction events that occurred earlier ...