Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

The Paleozoic Era, which ran from 541 million to 251.9 million years ago, was a time of great change on Earth. The era began with the breakup of one supercontinent and the formation of another. Plants ...

In what likely is the first study on the evolution of dietary preferences across the animal kingdom, researchers report several unexpected discoveries, including that the first animal likely was a ...

Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex -- structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -- are present in abundance in ...

This video takes viewers back to the extraordinary Paleozoic Era, the time when life flourished long before dinosaurs existed ...

For the first time, researchers have assembled a comprehensive record of sea level variations during the Paleozoic Era, producing a nearly-300-million–year timeline that more than doubles previous ...

New millipede specimens from the Paleozoic of Scotland are described, including Archidesmus macnicoli Peach, 1882, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Tillywhandland Quarry SSSI and three new ...

Communities of Paleozoic shelf invertebrates underwent varied rates of change in faunal composition. Notable changes took place during Late Devonian-Early Mississippian time and were most noticeable ...

HOUSTON, June 16 – Apache Corp. has drilled eight new field discoveries in 10 attempts in 2011, including its first Paleozoic success, as it pushes younger Jurassic and Cretaceous plays farther ...

Lake Champlain's Isle La Motte is rich in marine fossils, some of which are 450 million years old. Robert Lyons Nelson Fisk, who was Vermont's lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1898, was also the owner ...