The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

The expansion of land plants during the Late Devonian contributed to the marine mass extinction. Communications Earth & Environment , 2023; 4 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01087-8 Cite This Page : ...

The Late Devonian represents a critical interval in Earth’s history, marked by a profound restructuring of marine biodiversity and a series of mass extinction events. This period witnessed ...

The late Devonian extinction is one of the five major extinction events to have occurred on Earth. It's not unusual for scientists to argue over what causes a mass extinction event -- of the five ...

I call the Late Devonian my favorite mass extinction primarily because it shows that humans are far from the only organism to remake the Earth. Before the Late Devonian mass extinction, life on ...

Scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction, contrary to previous beliefs, and continued to thrive. The findings reveal how these ...

Indeed, the discovery of even a few plutonium-244 atoms in late Devonian fossils would be corroborating evidence for the supernova hypothesis. There are other extinction events that occurred earlier ...

An even larger mass extinction event occurred 359 million years ago—it's called the Hangenberg event, which marks the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods.

About 250 million years ago, some very important arthropods went extinct. Trilobites were marine animals similar to today’s spiders and crustaceans known for a wide variety of body designs. One ...

Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the ...

The current leading theory for the Devonian mass extinction posits that increased weathering of rock caused a worldwide extinction event. During the Devonian, the maximum height of plants went ...