The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in Southwest China's Yunnan province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

On the way up to Michigan for my mothers wedding, we stopped in Georgia to hunt for Trilobite fossils! I made a mistake with ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans. Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil ...

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ocean was once a much quieter place, populated mainly by smaller creatures, ...

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era spanning approximately 419 to 359 million years ago, defined chronostratigraphically by its base at the first appearance of the conodont Ireviken ...

Illustration of Paleolophus – a lungfish that swam in the South Chinese seas 410 million years ago. Credit: Brian Choo (Flinders University) Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in ...