The first ammonoids also arose during the Devonian. Related to octopuses and squid, these marine animals survived until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Plants began ...
Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...
How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...
Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...
At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...