Earth’s Devonian trees altered the climate and landscape, creating new dynamics for the world’s food webs and providing vast new ecological niches for evolution to fill.
Month: March 2022
Devonian World
The explosion in plant life in the Devonian world may have been more significant for Earth’s history than the changes wrought in the animal kingdom.
Silurian Magic
During a period of Silurian magic, life benefited from environmental conditions and thrived in the warm shallow seas and on land.
Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction
The Ordovician Period was a great time for life on Earth until the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction catastrophe.
The Big Ordovician Freeze
Life crept out of the oceans and onto dry land about 470 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. These first Ordovician plants had a major impact on the world.