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.

If amniotes had already evolved by the earliest Carboniferous, as our fossil shows, the last common ancestor of amniotes and amphibians has to lie much further back in time, in the Devonian period. We ...

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).

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 region.

Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved ' Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...

5. Devonial Fossil Gorge Near Iowa City, you’ll find the opportunity to walk around on a 375 million-year-old ocean floor. The Devonian Fossil Gorge allows visitors to look into the geological history ...

Their findings appear in the Aug. 2 issue of Nature. “The current fossil is much more complete than any other record from the Devonian and comes from the Late Devonian — somewhat younger than the ...

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 ...