This discovery could represent the first record of a Devonian desert island with trees. The discovery process and preservation efforts required meticulous planning: ・The fossils were initially ...

A collection of millions-of-years-old fossils ended up in the landfill due to a North Jersey university's failure to pay for ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first vertebrates to walk on land. Found in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 ...

The fossil remains, discovered amongst the Devonian Period rocks (dating to approximately 382 million years old) are from a small invertebrate that once lived in this region – at a time that ...

Unlike nearly all fossil fish of that age ... Surprisingly, these produced a rich collection of Devonian fish microfossils. This was the first evidence that an arm of the sea had extended into ...

It was also around this time that the first plants invaded the land. The earliest shark-like teeth we have come from an Early Devonian (410-million-year-old) fossil belonging to an ancient fish called ...

Collected by Harry Toombs in the 1960s from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation of western Australia. Fossil taxa include lungfish and other sarcopterygians, a variety of placoderms and actinopterygians.

Unlike nearly all fossil fish of that age ... Surprisingly, these produced a rich collection of Devonian fish microfossils. This was the first evidence that an arm of the sea had extended into ...

For 135 years, there’s been just a single species belonging to this group. Now, a second has been discovered in western Queensland.