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A research team from the University of Manitoba has discovered a new genus of placoderm fish, named Elmosteus lundarensis, ...
Ancient lungfish jaws tell a complex evolutionary story. New 3D analysis uncovers surprising feeding adaptations. Ancient ...
Middle Devonian rocks can vary in thickness from 500 ft in along the western edge of deposition to 3,000 ft closer to the delta. Depth to pay can range from less than 1,000 ft to more than 5,000 ...
Brodie Moss has recently witnessed the horror of what a nasty bite from a marine creature can do, but what can an ancient fossil found in WA reveal about the bite of our closest ‘fishy’ relatives?
Exceptionally well preserved fossilized soft-tissue organs from Devonian-age placoderms reveal new insights into the early evolution of jawed vertebrates, according to a new study. The origin and ...
Daeschler retired from the Academy after 30 years of explorations and studies into Devonian-age fossil vertebrates. Academy of Natural Sciences’ photographer Ramon Torres.
Petrolia, Rimouski, Que., reported light oil on drillstem tests in two formations of Devonian age at its Tar Point exploratory well on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula. HOUSTON, Jan. 5-- Petrolia ...
This article was originally published with the title “ On the Devonian Age of the Green Pond Mountain Rocks ” in SA Supplements Vol. 19 No. 493supp (June 1885), p. 7877 doi:10.1038 ...
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Paleoillustrator Jason Poole was recently charged with depicting Hyneria lindae, the largest creature living in an ancient stream ecosystem in Devonian ...
IN a recent number of NATURE (vol. xlix. p. 435) Prof. Bonney writes:— “Speaking for ourselves we think he (Prof, van Hise) is disposed to.… admit on too slight evidence that in ‘Silurian ...