Over millions of years, most living organisms suffocated in oxygen-deprived oceans. In the aftermath, modern vertebrates conquered the world. We think of mass extinctions as brief moments of havoc — ...
New research reveals a chain of environmental disasters. These took place in what is today's South Africa, during an ancient time period called the Early-Middle Devonian. The crises led to the ...
The Late Devonian mass extinction (roughly 372 million years ago) was one of five mass extinctions in Earth’s history, with roughly 75% of all species disappearing over its course. It happened in two ...
A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)—has identified a ...
Silurian-Devonian biota and paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and northern New Brunswick / Pierre-André Bourque, Sylvain Desbiens, Patricia G. Gensel ; with contributions from Richard Cloutier ...
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition was a time of substantial climatic, environmental and biotic change, with the Late Devonian being recognised as one of the ‘Big 5’ mass extinction intervals of ...
Origins and evolution of the Antarctic biota: an introduction / J. Alistair Crame -- Antarctica's place within Cambrian to Devonian Gondwana / L.R.M. Cocks -- Cambrian Antarctic archaeocyaths / ...
During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...
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