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

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 ...

Late Devonian brachiopod fossils were preserved as molds in a fine-grained sandstone (Big Creek, Hornell, New York, N 42.364361, W 77.645760). Individual fossil samples like this are the basis for ...

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1871), pp. 57-88 (32 pages) ...

The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to increase through donations and fieldwork by Museum staff most recently in Morocco and Oxford. In 2007, a large donation by David Kemp ...

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new species, Zosterophyllum baoyangense, from the Lower Devonian of Guizhou Province, reveals divergent life-history strategies in early land plants. This ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

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 ...

including ostracod and ammonite fossils from the early Jurassic and Devonian periods (about 190 million to 400 million years ago). They were found in Plover Cove and Sham Chung in Sai Kung in 2021.