To rectify that situation, they studied rock formations in New South Wales that showed evidence of the ancient creatures and found what they describe as new examples of pterygotid eurypterids, one ...

Scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction, contrary to previous beliefs, and continued to thrive. The findings reveal how these ...

The new life burgeoning on land apparently escaped the worst effects of the mass extinction that ended the Devonian. The main victims were marine creatures, with up to 70 percent of species wiped out.

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction, contrary to previous beliefs, and continued to thrive. The ...

Supernova events and Gamma ray bursts as arguments for the devonian and ordovician-silurian mass extinction events are nothing new. I remember reading about such arguments since I was 7 or 8 ...

Simultaneous explosions of stars, called supernovae, may have led to one of Earth’s mass extinctions 359 million years ago at the end of the Devonian period, according to new research.

THIS part deals with the genus Tryplasma, of which several new species are described, from the Upper Silurian of the neighbourhood of Yass. A history of the genus is given, together with an ...