A William Paterson University professor says school officials lost his rare fossil collection and that the artifacts were dumped in a landfill. Now he’s suing. Martin Becker, an environmental science ...

The Ordovician extinction is thought to have killed off about 60 percent of the invertebrate sea creatures at a time when most of Earth's species lived in the ocean; the late Devonian event eliminated ...

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

The late Devonian and Ordovician mass extinctions remain mysteries. The Ordovician event is believed to have wiped out about 60% of invertebrate sea creatures when most life was in the ocean.

A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first vertebrates to walk on land. Found in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...