A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has ... and nostrils on its snout for breathing air. The first amphibians breathed through simple lungs and their skin.

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

The specimen of Apateon pedestris from Niederhäslich shows soft tissue preservation and form. Fossil of Apateon pedestris, a 7cm-long larval amphibian. This 300-million-year-old specimen is so well ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago. A trek to the abandoned, 300-acre limestone quarry at the park is “a ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve. Unlike ferns ...

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 ...

The fossil remains, discovered amongst the Devonian Period rocks (dating to approximately 382 million years old) are from a small invertebrate that once lived in this region – at a time that ...

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 ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit – or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog. Scientists on ...