In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed ...

A road cut on Route 120 in central Pennsylvania has been a rich source for fossils from the Devonian Period, when vertebrates began to make their way onto land. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Larry Decina, a member ...

These recent discoveries suggest that the geological heritage of cities still holds many secrets. Who knows—perhaps another fossil is waiting to be uncovered by a curious passerby? What is the ...

The time period from which the fossils came from also make them, in many ways, pivotal fish. They hail from the Devonian Period (359 million years to 419 million years ago), which represents a hinge ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences' newest exhibit features 375-million-year-old fossil "Life Onto Land: The Devonian" centers around the crucial period of Earth’s evolution and the Devonian Period ...

These fossils are from before the dinosaurs – even before the formation of the supercontinent Pangaea. The Devonian Period, roughly 416-358 million years ago, is the fourth period of the ...

Thirty years after 4,000 pristine fish fossils dating back 360 million years were discovered in regional NSW, a retired doctor is reopening the dig in the hope of finding the first animals to walk ...

A fossil fish called Dunkleosteus was less svelte shark and more rotund tuna, but that only made it a fiercer predator in the seas of the Devonian Period. Skip to content Skip to site index.

More than 175 species of fossil coelacanth lived between the Lower Devonian period (419 to 411 million years ago) and the end of the Cretaceous period (66 million years ago).

As scientists have toiled to chronicle of the evolution of insects, a frustrating blank spot in the fossil record has masked one of the most critical points in insects’ development — the Devonian, or ...