Earth, Supernova and Late Devonian extinction

Life reconstruction of the non-marine component of the Waterloo Farm biota. Hyneria udlezinye is shown together with the tetrapods Umzantsia amazana and Tutusius umlambo, the placoderms ...
The late Devonian period was characterized by many environmental changes, although it’s not clear what caused an estimated 70 to 80 percent drop in species numbers. Some scientists don’t consider ...
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...
In 2007, a large donation by David Kemp added considerably to the UK Eocene taxa represented. Collected by Harry Toombs in the 1960s from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation of western Australia.