devonian

Species that evolved before the Devonian period tend not to age and instead grow through their entire lives.

Even young enough Devonian (1) children could probably manage to accept that as an explanation!

My mum was half Manc and half Devonian (to one gen) and my dad is half Irish and half North Hants to one gen.

Mammals were the worst thing to ever happen to Devonian civilization.

Interesting, the Devonian also appears to be the period at which fish started sporting limb like appendages and muscle structures, and other animals started to explore land.

Personally I find the devonian and carboniferous much more interesting than the mesozoic.

I think that roughly correlates with the Devonian extinction.

For example, if it were possible to put a modern-day coelacanth in a time machine, and bring it back 400 Myr to the Devonian period, could it mate with another coelacanth from that period, and produce viable offspring?

The formation of some of the LIPs in the past 500 million years coincide in time with mass extinctions and rapid climatic changes, which has led to numerous hypotheses about causal relationships.’ However, those might not be the Devonian and Ordovician extinction events referred to in this article.

I believe there's also a hypothesis that our ancestry back to the Devonian or Cambrian was based on neoteny/paedomorphism where a particular creature living on the sea floor, when in the infant stage, has a limb for propulsion which it loses when it finds a nice spot to settle.

Plants of the Devonian period would like a recount on "the longest period of exponential population growth for any organism...

Something's wrong with this article: "showcasing early plant life coexisting with dinosaurs." This early plant life is from the middle Devonian, well before dinosaurs evolved.

Mine password was a geologic time era something like "Devonian".

Burning all the fossil fuels is (at worst) just going to put us back into a Cambrian/Devonian greenhouse earth configuration.

In fact, vertebrates were only just moving on to land during the Devonian.

I'm not only a German immigrant but also Cornish, Devonian, Cumbrian, various flavours of Scottish and obviously Irish (both Northern and the Republic).