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 ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

My research integrates evidence from both fossil and living plants. Fossil evidence is in the form of early land plant megafossils and dispersed microfossils (spores and fragments). I am currently ...

"This could potentially be the first record of a Devonian desert island with trees." Geopark coordinator Melanie Border said the fossil could open a "new chapter" of changing environments and ...

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.

Researchers say the unborn embryos discovered in a fossil from the island of South ... looked at slices cut through rock formed in the Mid-Devonian epoch. They are at least three million years ...