Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

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Calgarians seeking shelter in the warmth of the Devonian Gardens this winter are out of luck. The indoor botanical park was expected to reopen by the end of 2016, after closing that July for crews to ...

On an expedition to Greenland in 1987, this University of Cambridge paleontologist unearthed remains of a creature from the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) that skulked around swamps on ...

About 1867, Jay Terrell was walking along the Lake Erie shore in Sheffield Lake when he noticed what appeared to be fossils in the shale cliffs above him that lined the lakeshore. They proved to be ...

It's a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum: Did the distant ancestors of land animals come ashore and then evolve legs, or did they evolve legs and then come ashore? This is a daunting question ...