Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

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 ...

Prototaxites taiti may belong to an unknown multicellular lineage. This 26-foot fossil puzzled scientists for over 165 years. Advanced analysis shows it is unlike any plant, animal, or fungus. Did our ...

A fierce predator with a huge stinger and long pincers is the oldest land-animal fossil ever found on the former Gondwana supercontinent, a new study reports. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and ...

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...