It was 1938 when a museum curator in East London noticed an unfamiliar fish in a haul from the Chalumna ... the coelacanth as a fossil relic from the Devonian Period, more than 400 million years ...

The Devonian, part of the Paleozoic era, is otherwise known as the Age of Fishes, as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that ...

Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum ... because it was known only from fossilized Devonian-Era remains almost 450 million years old.

The paper, by J. Lu at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians." ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

The earliest shark-like teeth we have come from an 410-million-year-old, Early Devonian fossil belonging to an ancient fish called Doliodus problematicus. Described as the ‘least shark-like shark’, it ...

The sun-faded metal sign rising from the rocky slope is a humble marker for such a remarkable place. Squeezed between the ...

Fossils are ancient organisms’ preserved remains ... Placoderms were the most abundant and diverse group of fish during the Devonian period, which was 419 to 359 million years ago.

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...