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 ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct branch of life. Since ...

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 ...

added the team are 'incredibly excited' about the fossil discovery because it opens a 'new chapter' of changing environments ...

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 ...