Calcada illustration Most people know the theory that an asteroid smashed into Earth — hitting what is now the Yucatán ... went extinct in the late Devonian period. Credit: Andrew Bush / National ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

A college professor in New Jersey is claiming that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence ...

The fossils "were transported in glacier boulders over a period of several million years during Earth's last glaciation" and ended up in the High Mountain area of Wayne, N.J. According to the ...

Its expansion to more than 375,000 square feet inside, including the new Dynamic Earth and Evolving Life ... who existed during the Late Devonian period about 382–358 million years ago, was ...