Aug. 18 (UPI) --New research suggests harmful cosmic rays from a nearby supernova might have caused the extinction events that form the boundary between the Devonian-Carboniferous periods. Around 360 ...

New research reveals a chain of environmental disasters. These took place in what is today's South Africa, during an ancient time period called the Early-Middle Devonian. The crises led to the ...

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 ...

Members of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are shining new light on an enduring mystery--one that is millions of years in the making. A team of paleontologists led by Professor ...

Our distant relative figured out how to survive in a dramatically different environment, can you? By the end of the Devonian Period, the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates.

The Coralville Lake Visitors Center also is getting an update, eventually having an exhibit demonstrating the history of the lake, from the Devonian period to the time the Army Corps of Engineers took ...

Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We've survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars. But how would we fare even further ...

Imagine living in the Devonian Period, a time around 400 million years ago when the world was a totally different place. You’d be surrounded by strange, giant plants and the first forests, but there ...

Paleontologists use ancient marine faunas to test long-term changes in our warming oceans. Members of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are shining new light on an enduring mystery -- ...