Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars. But how would we fare even further ...

Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) are a common and widespread group, the most familiar of which are recognizable by their small, rounded bodies and long, slender legs ('daddy long-legs'). Their fossil ...

FOR more than, a century, since the days of the pioneer workers on the Old Red Sandstone, the osteolepid fishes have proved a source of difficulty to vertebrate palæontologists, and even more so to ...

The Devonian-Carboniferous transition was a time of substantial climatic, environmental and biotic change, with the Late Devonian being recognised as one of the ‘Big 5’ mass extinction intervals of ...