The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...

When plants respirate, a process as essential as breathing is to humans, they consume carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. At a large scale and over a long period of time, this lowers the concentration of ...

The Devonian Period, 419 to 358 million years ago, was one of the most turbulent times in Earth’s past and was marked by at least six significant marine extinctions, including one of the five ...

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period. ... period, from 145 to 66 million years ago. Like the clubmosses (see Plant ...

The now-extinct Tiktaalik lived during the Devonian period (aka the Age of Fishes) of the Paleozoic geological era. It may not be as sexy as the age of dinosaurs’ Mesozoic era, which came much later, ...

The earliest-known plant seeds date back to the Late Devonian epoch. ... They found that Alasemenia seeds are about 25-33 mm long and clearly lack a cupule, unlike most other seeds of the period.

By the end of the Devonian Period, the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates. There was also Tiktaalik - one of the first known vertebrates able and willing to move from the ...

It dates back to the Devonian Period, when plants made their first foray onto dry land and animals soon followed. As such, it would have looked like an alien world to our modern eyes.

Davies and his colleagues stumbled upon the forest remnants during fieldwork in the Hangman Sandstone Formation, which dates to the Middle Devonian period (393 million to 383 million years ago).

The forest dates back between 419 and 358 million years ago, during the Devonian Period. This was when life on Earth began its first really big expansion from the sea up onto the land.