Red-colored sediments, generated when North America collided with Europe, give the Devonian its name, as these distinguishing ...

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 on ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron ...

The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years ago. The first African fossils of Devonian ...

Fossils of a new species of carnivorous fish that lurked ancient rivers have been discovered in the Canadian Arctic as per a new study. It was the research scientists at Academy of Natural Sciences in ...

Discover Magazine turned to a University of Cincinnati geologist to learn more about what caused a mass extinction about 360 million years ago. The Devonian extinction wiped out as many as 80% of ...

Coral reefs rank among the most biodiverse habitats on Earth and are often referred to as the rainforests of the sea. Modern reef building corals evolved in the Triassic Period around 250 million ...

The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years ago. The evolution of tetrapods from fishes ...