In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Extended periods of marine anoxia — a lack of oxygen in the water — characterized the Late Devonian Mass Extinction. The two most pronounced periods are known as the Kellwasser event, which occurred ...

This fish, measuring up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, is the largest bony fish on record from the Late Devonian (383 million to 359 million years ago) and was predatory, prompting researchers to ...

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 : ...

Researchers are looking to the Late Devonian mass extinction which happened around 370 million years ago to better understand how communities of organisms respond in times of great upheaval.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Period, roughly 370 million years ago, when around 70 percent of species disappeared. Scientists are still ...

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 ...

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 ...