Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron ...

Researchers at the Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa in southern Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of ancient marine bivalve from a fossil roughly 400 million years old, adding a ...

Around 400 million years ago, during a geological era often celebrated by paleontologists as the "Age of Fishes," the global ...

The newest exhibit at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will give visitors a glimpse into the world millions of years ago. "Life Onto Land: The Devonian" centers around the crucial ...

IN a recent number of NATURE (vol. xlix. p. 435) Prof. Bonney writes:— “Speaking for ourselves we think he (Prof, van Hise) is disposed to.… admit on too slight evidence that in ‘Silurian, Devonian, ...

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