This amazingly beautiful Iowa gorge is a unique experience for visitors to get a glimpse into the Earth's past.

North Liberty's Tom Woodruff is supervising the transplanting of a century-old Iowa farm outhouse to the state of Washington. Columnist Richard Hakes has more.

Euramerica also produced the great majority of Devonian tetrapod fossils. The new Australian fossils come from Gondwana, a gigantic southern continent that also contained Africa, South America, ...

The Silurian was the shortest period of the Paleozoic era, lasting only about 23.5 million years. It immediately preceded the Devonian period, which is better known in Iowa thanks to the Devonian ...

More than 175 species of fossil coelacanth lived between the Lower Devonian period (419 to 411 million years ago) and the end of the Cretaceous period (66 million years ago).

Some fossils are easier to spot due to their darker coloration. These are believed to be large scales. Ongoing studies aim to precisely identify the fossilized species. So far, observations reveal ...

This study confirms that the Gogo Formation of the Late Devonian is one of the richest and best-preserved assemblages of fossil fishes and invertebrates on Earth.

The Devonian Fossil Gorge allows visitors to look into the geological history of the state, dating back to some 200 million years before the dinosaurs. It was first discovered after extreme flooding ...

As scientists have toiled to chronicle of the evolution of insects, a frustrating blank spot in the fossil record has masked one of the most critical points in insects’ development — the Devonian, or ...

A research team from the Hubei Institute of Geosciences discovered abundant and typical Devonian coral fossils in the northwest of Yunxi county, Hubei province, in late March. [Photo provided to ...