The first ammonoids also arose during the Devonian. Related to octopuses and squid, these marine animals survived until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Plants began ...

The ferns and their relatives first appear in the fossil record some 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period ... of the Cretaceous period, from 145 to 66 million years ago. Like the ...

At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve. Unlike ferns ...

Elkinsia polymorpha is the oldest known seed bearing plant fossil in the world, dating back to the Devonian period roughly ...