Earth, Late Devonian extinction and Supernova

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 ...
"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 ...
David Broussard, Ph.D., department chair and assistant professor of biology, focuses his research on the paleontology of Late Devonian (365 – 360 million years ago) vertebrates including extinct ...
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.