GEOLOGY & NATURAL RESOURCES. Cleveland sits at the junction of 2 major land types. From the Portage Escarpment southeast and east of the city, the glaciated Allegheny Plateau rises in gradually higher ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom recently made a shocking discovery: a prehistoric fossil forest dating back 390 million years, making it the oldest known forest in the world. Their findings, ...

An example of a Middle Devonian reef limestone (polished section) from the Hönnetal in the Sauerland region with the branching soil coral Thamnopora sp. Scale 1 centimeter. This coral was one of the ...

The Devonian is a geological period spanning from 416 to 359 million years ago. Known as the "age of fish," it is marked by the rise of numerous aquatic species, particularly placoderms, the first ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume.

Writing in the Journal of the Geological Society, researchers describe finding a fossilized forest that they say marks a moment in biology that “would forever change” the planet.

This broad coverage provides a unique opportunity for researchers and geologists to study the entire spectrum of Middle Devonian geological and paleontological features within a specific region, ...

Late Devonian Mass Extinction: New Study Reshapes Understanding Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth's Devonian era - taking place more than 370 million years ago - saw the emergence of the first ...

Thought to be one of the largest predatory armored fish, Dunkleosteus terreli may not have been a giant after all, according to new research.

A pair of paleontologists, one with Rhodes University's Albany Museum and Geology Department, the other with Uppsala University, has identified a new species of tristichopterid, which is an ...