It’s a reminder that more than 350 million years ago, during the Devonian Age of Fishes, Cleveland was covered by a shallow ...

Fossils of a new species of carnivorous fish that lurked ancient rivers have been discovered in the Canadian Arctic as per a new study. It was the research scientists at Academy of Natural Sciences in ...

Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have described ...

“We call it a ‘fish-eat-fish world,’ an ecosystem where you really needed to escape predation,” said Dr. Ted Daeschler, describing life in the Devonian period in what is now far-northern Canada.

Study of a growth series of twenty-seven specimens from the Upper Devonian of Escuminac Bay, Québec documents a complex pattern of vertebral development in the osteolepiform fish Eusthenopteron foordi ...

Archaeologists uncovered the ancient creature while studying sandstone deposits in a section of road in north central Pennsylvania. It is believed to be from the late Devonian period, at a time long ...

The Devonian System of western and central Colorado consists of a lower clastic unit, consisting of the McCracken, Elbert, and Parting Formations and an upper carbonate unit, the Dyer and Ouray ...

Our ongoing effort to collect Late Devonian vertebrate fossils (370 to 360 million years old) in Pennsylvania has resulted in lots of new discoveries from highway road cuts exposing the rocks of the ...

One of the best-documented evolutionary transitions is the appearance of tetrapods, the four-limbed vertebrates that now dominate the land. A large series of “fishapod” fossils have been discovered ...

The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years ago. The first African fossils of Devonian ...

I love outdated museum displays. They marvelously represent the “history” part of natural history exhibits – dusty dioramas of old ideas that are a baseline for how much our understanding has changed.