Loren E. Babcock, The Ohio State University, introduces research on Cladoselache, a puzzling ancient shark-like fish ...

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 ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, ‘groundbreaking’ new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

The story of how vertebrates got their teeth is much older than researchers realized, new findings show. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, scientists examined the teeth of three ...

PHILADELPHIA (March 27, 2013)— "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 ...

Origins of life The sexual act where two creatures physically join together to create new life first began 385 million years ago, according to a new fossil study. The extinct Devonian-age armoured ...

Q: What do we know about the environment in which the transition to land occurred? NS: Back in the Devonian, north central Pennsylvania was very different from today, where you now find a river valley ...