Plants began spreading beyond the wetlands during the Devonian, with new types developing that could survive on dry land. Toward the end of the Devonian the first forests arose as stemmed plants ...

The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during the Silurian and Devonian periods, is considered plant terrestrialization ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist ... Three hundred and sixty million years ago, in the Devonian era, there were no trees yet. The only animals living on land ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

The recent discoveries of palaobotany show that many of the main groups of vascular land plants can be traced right back to Devonian times as independent 'lines, and Dr. A. H. Church in a recent ...

At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first woody plants appeared, and the water's edge was becoming a new ...