On the sidewalks of Inverness, remnants of ancient fish from the Devonian period have been spotted ... remains of ancient marine creatures. The fossils identified belong to placoderms, the ...

Queensland Museum scientists describe the 400-million-year-old fossil Palaeospondylus australis, possibly the smallest ...

Learn about the time period that took place 416 to 359 ... the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first ...

which goes back to the mid-Devonian period about 400 million years ago. By examining the rocks surrounding these fossils, scientists determined that the environment back then was probably a ...

The fish date from the Devonian period, which are thought to include evidence of a fin. Mr Ryan said: "I brought them to the attention of a palaeontologist who studies these fossils and they were ...

It is also apt that in their pursuit of palaeontological understanding, Miller and Trewin were both inspired by the fish fossils of the Devonian period found in the north of Scotland. Although the ...

Scientists have discovered 30 dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong on Port Island, a remote site off the northern coast.

Returning briefly to his academic home turf, Fortey investigates an enigmatic fossil called Prototaxites, from the Devonian period (419 million to 359 million years ago). This 8-metre column of ...

hinting at a global distribution during the Devonian period. Artist's reconstruction of Palaeospondylus as an agnathan. The intricate honeycomb-like structure of the Australian fossils suggests ...

Contemporary coelacanths are often described as living fossils. Superficially, that may be true. But new evidence now makes that nickname less valid. The two species of the large-boned lungfish ...

They’d find crawfish and snakes as well as simple fossils from the Devonian Period near the shale-lined creek. Now that they’re men, the fossils are back. In early November, they opened Fossil ...