The new life burgeoning on land apparently escaped the worst effects of the mass extinction that ended the Devonian. The main victims were marine creatures, with up to 70 percent of species wiped out.

Will modern coral reefs go extinct? The answer is uncertain, but some of their ancient counterparts managed to dodge a bullet ...

Some scientists hypothesize the extinction crisis was driven by changes in ocean chemistry or a cooling climate that caused sea levels to drop as glaciers formed. The late Devonian period was ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...