Some Devonian trees are known to have grown 100 feet (30 meters) tall. By the end of the period the first ferns, horsetails, and seed plants had also appeared. The new life burgeoning on land ...

"This was a pretty weird forest — not like any forest you would see today." Researchers in England just discovered fossil ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some ... At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking chance discovery in southwest England in the Hangman Sandstone Formation revealed the world’s oldest fossilized forest. Dating back 390 million years, these ancient trees help grow ...