An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

Professor Martin Becker is suing his employer William Paterson University, its mailroom supervisor and others for allegedly ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

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

A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has ... and nostrils on its snout for breathing air. The first amphibians breathed through simple lungs and their skin.

Becker has spent hundreds of hours collecting Devonian Age, approximately 380 million years old, marine invertebrate fossils. A collection of millions-of-years-old fossils ended up in the landfill ...

The specimen of Apateon pedestris from Niederhäslich shows soft tissue preservation and form. Fossil of Apateon pedestris, a 7cm-long larval amphibian. This 300-million-year-old specimen is so well ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve. Unlike ferns ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit – or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog. Scientists on ...