Very few species on Earth today are considered “living fossils”–species that have survived over hundreds of millions of years, remaining more or less unchanged compared to their distant ancestors.

New research reveals a chain of environmental disasters. These took place in what is today's South Africa, during an ancient time period called the Early-Middle Devonian. The crises led to the ...

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During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...