In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Extended periods of marine anoxia — a lack of oxygen in the water — characterized the Late Devonian Mass Extinction. The two most pronounced periods are known as the Kellwasser event, which occurred ...

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its ...

I call the Late Devonian my favorite mass extinction primarily because it shows that humans are far from the only organism to remake the Earth. Before the Late Devonian mass extinction, life on ...

This fish, measuring up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, is the largest bony fish on record from the Late Devonian (383 million to 359 million years ago) and was predatory, prompting researchers to ...

The expansion of land plants during the Late Devonian contributed to the marine mass extinction. Communications Earth & Environment , 2023; 4 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01087-8 Cite This Page : ...

But in a paper published in the Swiss Journal of Paleontology, scientists describe an entirely new species of primitive shark from the Late Devonian period, a time when they were just beginning to ...

Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the ...