Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its ...

The small Silurian Period shark-like fish Shenacanthus vermiformis. HEMING ZHANG/Reuters Jaws were just one of the evolutionary innovations.

A fossilized millipede-like creature discovered in Scotland may represent the oldest-known land animal, a humble pioneer of terrestrial living 425 million years ago that helped pave the way for ...

There are over 7 billion people living on the earth right now. Tens of millions are born and die each year. Every single one of us leaves signs of our existence in the air, water, soil -- even ...

The Silurian Period is characterised by a dynamic interplay between environmental stressors and biotic turnover, with extinction events and carbon isotope excursions (CIEs) representing pivotal ...