More than 350 million years ago something odd was going on with the Earth's magnetic field. Scientists now propose that the field was really weak, which may have affected life on our planet. The ...

Klipbokberg, Grootrivierhoogte, in the Cederberg. These mountains contain clues about ancient landscapes. Cameron Penn-Clarke The Earth was a very different place 400 million years ago, during what’s ...

THE tract of Devonian rocks which stretches through the north of France and Belgium, and across Rhenish Prussia into Westphalia and Nassau, has furnished ample materials for geological disquisition.

Aug. 18 (UPI) --New research suggests harmful cosmic rays from a nearby supernova might have caused the extinction events that form the boundary between the Devonian-Carboniferous periods. Around 360 ...

M. P. VENUKOFF has recently given a general sketch of o the Devonian rocks of Russia. As is well known, these rocks, so largely developed in Russia, contain such a peculiar fauna that geologists have ...

Fossil of Tiktaalin, an extinct fish. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons ...