Lower Devonian News Today

A Devonian bony fish mortality plate showing a lower shield of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukraine.While war rages on in the Ukraine, our hearts go out to those who live and work here contributing much to our understanding of Podolia, a historic region in Eastern Europe, located in the west-central a

The Palaeozoic Lizard Complex of southwestern England is composed of a peridotite body with gabbro and intruded by granitic rocks. The peridotites are bounded by amphibolite schists and metasedimentary rocks with those in the southern region also intruded by granodiorite sheets. These granodiorites sheets are coeval with the Man-of-War Gneiss on islets south of the Lizard headland. To the north, the Lizard Complex is in tectonic contact with the Devonian Gramscatho Group. Zircon and baddeleyite ...

Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism.

AS a writer about history, I sometimes have to confront issues that have surfaced out of the past to cause controversy in the present day.

Fossils: Large catch of Silurian fish reveal the rise of jawed vertebrates

Algerian state oil company Sonatrach has made three oil and gas discoveries at wells located across three separate basins.

An international team of scientists from the United States and Australia, led by Sarah Jacquet at the University of Missouri, has documented the discovery

IT was 70 years ago today that one of the great mysteries of the 1950s was resolved, rather than solved, when the missing Stone of Destiny was recovered from the grounds of Arbroath Abbey. On Christmas Day, 1950, four young Scottish nationalists – Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Alan Stuart and Kay Matheson – pulled off a stunning coup that briefly electrified the world. I have called them the Stone Raiders, because they secreted themselves inside Westminster Abbey and removed the Stone in ...