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The Late Devonian Extinction

In Our Time: Science

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The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

Early plants that we know at the beginning of the Devonian, they're fantastically well known from a locality called Rynie in the northeast of Scotland. They didn't really have roots, they were just connected by stems that crept into the water so even though they were living maybe a meter away from the edge of the water they just kept their toes in the water just to be safe. David Bond talks about what happens to the rock when it's covered with soil and why does that matter in this extinction story? And Mike also talked about some very strange fish, trilobites and conidons, these eolite jollis, vertebrates, fish like which razor sharp

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