Around three hundred and fifty million years ago, during the Late Devonian Period, the Earth was just beginning to take its ...

The Devonian Period, spanning approximately 419–359 million years ago, represents a pivotal phase in South America’s deep-time history. Fossiliferous formations across the continent ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, ‘groundbreaking’ new fossil research ...

Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.