Plants also absorb carbon dioxide, or CO2, the atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas. As they spread, they could have chilled the planet, bringing on an ice age that would have made life even less ...

Dunkleosteus was a massive armored fish that ruled the Devonian seas over 358 million years ago. With powerful, self-sharpening jaws and an immense bite force, it was one of the most fearsome ...

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 seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across ...

During the Devonian period, sea life profilerated. Jawless fishes, known as placoderms, diversified widely throughout oceans that encircled the supercontinents Gondwana and Euramerica.

For many years, we have been making visits to the little red cabin at the top of Plattekill Clove. It’s the property of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development.

The Devonian Period had seen the first trees and soils and it had such a diversity of sea life that it’s known as the Age of Fishes, some of them massive and armoured, and, in one of the iconic ...

Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.

“A series of crises piled up to affect life on Earth,” says Michael Coates, a biologist at the University of Chicago. Annihilation crept in, and slowly swept away the dominant Devonian species. This ...