Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

J urassic Triasic Permian Penrsylvanian Mis,ippian Devonian Silurian Ordovician ... fishes Rise of invertebrates Dominance of trilobites Oldest known fossils Primitive marine invertebrates ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

A dip in sales is causing Texas fashion retailer Fossil to close numerous retail stores as it tries to drive profit. In an outline of its turnaround plan, the maker of watches, handbags and ...

What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago. A trek to the abandoned, 300-acre limestone quarry at the park is “a ...

"The cyclidans have been compared to many different arthropods, including trilobites, horseshoe crabs, true crabs and copepods," Greg explains. "In 1997, well-preserved fossils showed that they ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil evidence indicates that humans began domesticating avocados in what is now Honduras around 7,500 years ago. Analysis of 1,725 fossilized avocados from the ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

The deal would cut open Ukraine’s natural resource veins, and could leave the majority of its key resources — including fossil fuels — under Russian control. Fifty percent of Ukraine’s ...