Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Learn about the time period that took place 416 to 359 ... the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker stopped by Bucktail Area High School in Renovo to learn more about their efforts.

which goes back to the mid-Devonian period about 400 million years ago. By examining the rocks surrounding these fossils, scientists determined that the environment back then was probably a ...

While growing up along the Welsh border with England, I used to collect fossils from deposits of the Silurian and Devonian periods (438 to 360 million years ago). This pursuit gave me an intrinsic ...

Late Devonian brachiopod fossils were preserved as molds in a fine-grained sandstone (Big Creek, Hornell, New York, N 42.364361, W 77.645760). Individual fossil samples like this are the basis for ...

The fossil remains, discovered amongst the Devonian Period rocks (dating to approximately 382 million years old) are from a small invertebrate that once lived in this region – at a time that ...