Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the disappearance of up to 70 per cent of species roughly 370 million years ago at the end of The Age of Fishes, and the range of possible causes. Show more Melvyn ...

New findings by Australian and Chinese researchers shed light on how aquatic creatures made the transition to land.

Terrestrial plants may have caused the End-Devonian Extinction, but its origin is still shrouded in mystery. Life on earth reached a milestone during the Devonian period, 420 to 360 million years ago.

During the Devonian period, trees began to populate the Earth. But they also created soil, and the runoff changed the chemistry of the oceans. The evolution of some of the very species that now ...

SCIENTISTS have uncovered a sea beast that was a cross between a Great White shark and an Amazonian catfish. Dubbed Dunkleosteus terrelli, the creature roamed the seas during the Devonian period, ...