During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

The radiation of vascular plants during the mid to late Paleozoic has been considered one of
the most important drivers of change in Earth's terrestrial environments. Non-marine …

Lampreys are the most scientifically accessible of the remaining jawless vertebrates, but
their evolutionary history is obscure. In contrast to the rich fossil record of armoured jawless …

Being a hydrocarbon source rock and having a brittle (silica-rich) lithologic character makes
the Woodford Shale (Late Devonian to Early Mississippian) an important oil and gas shale in …

Charting the broad patterns of vascular plant evolution for Gondwana againstthe major
global environmental shifts and events is attempted here for the first time. This is based on …

Land plants invaded continents during the Mid-Paleozoic. Their spreading and
diversification have been compared to the Cambrian explosion in terms of intensity and …

Having produced some of the oldest prokaryotic fossils on earth of more than 3 billion years
of age, the sou-thern African region is important in answering the question of the origin of life …

We review recent advances on glossopterid reproductive biology and their implications for
seed plant phylogeny and the ecology of this widespread Permian Gondwanan group …

The hypothesis that tetrapods evolved from elpistostegids during the Frasnian, in a
predominantly aquatic context, has been challenged by the discovery of Middle Devonian …

The Devonian is known for the earliest dispersal of extensive wildfires, but the
spatiotemporal diversification pattern and process have not been studied in detail. We …