Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

The Devonian Period (419-359 million years ago) is widely known as the “Age of Fishes,” but this stretch of time also played host to an event known as the “Devonian Explosion,” when plant life finally ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve.

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

New seed fossil sheds light on wind dispersal in plants Researchers have discovered a new plant seed fossil, Alasemenia, one of the earliest known examples of a winged seed Date: October 8, 2024 ...

Our distant relative figured out how to survive in a dramatically different environment, can you? By the end of the Devonian Period, the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates ...

Isn't it wonderful to imagine that Earth was utterly different 400 million years ago! Before the time, when trees, oaks, and bristlecone pines began covering the Earth, towering, tree-like masses ...

On the sidewalks of Inverness, remnants of ancient fish from the Devonian period have been spotted by a keen eye. Their discovery casts new light on the geological history of this Scottish region.

Imagine living in the Devonian Period, a time around 400 million years ago when the world was a totally different place. You’d be surrounded by strange, giant plants and the first forests, but ...

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month — offering a glimpse of how plants grew ...

During the Devonian, plants evolved from small, simple structures standing just a few centimetres tall to trees towering up to 30 metres above the ground. By the end of this period, forests had ...

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.