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Life in the Devonian period: What it was really like
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, ...
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Mystery fossil challenges what we know about early land life, a major rewrite for evolutionary history
Roughly 400 million years ago, when Earth’s continents were only beginning to host simple ecosystems, a towering organism rose above the low vegetation of the early Devonian landscape. Long before ...
Artist’s impression of the landscape over 400 million years ago, when plants began diversifying the arrangement of their vascular tissues, increasing their overall stature, and exploring increasingly ...
Discovered over 160 years ago, Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct branch of life. Prototaxites in an Early ...
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