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

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

We may study the stars, indeed, with tne aid of fossils in terrestrial rocks ... Palcocoic (Age of amphibians, fishes, and higher invertebrates) ProrrocoY. Archeozoic.. Primordial.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Amphibians are increasingly vulnerable to global warming, according to new research. Scientists will be able to better identify what amphibian species and habitats will be most impacted by climate ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

Rock strata and fossils from this period are particularly ... and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians. Research into the environment and animal communities is extremely ...