While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Mr Ryan explained that the darker lumps running along the flagstone’s edge were likely to be bone fragments from fossilised fish. The fossils date from the Devonian period in Earth’s history ...

Devonian armoured fossil fish, Bothriolepis canadensis, from Quebec Macropoma lewesiensis one of the last coelacanth fishes lived in the clear water chalk seas of southern England 85 mya, and grew to ...

such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between fish and the first vertebrates to walk ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

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 ...

James explained that the darker lumps running along the flagstone's edge were likely to be bone fragments from fossilized fish. The fossils date from the Devonian period in Earth’s history ...

The earliest shark-like teeth we have come from an Early Devonian (410-million-year-old) fossil belonging to an ancient fish called Doliodus . Described as the 'least shark-like shark', it is thought ...

The Canowindra fauna is a very rich Late Devonian fish fauna. All of the fossil specimens are preserved on a single bedding plane, part of an ancient fish community which had been trapped in a ...

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 ...

Becker has spent hundreds of hours collecting Devonian Age, approximately 380 million years old, marine invertebrate fossils. A collection of millions-of-years-old fossils ended up in the landfill ...