Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...

It’s a reminder that more than 350 million years ago, during the Devonian Age of Fishes, Cleveland was covered by a shallow ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, ‘groundbreaking’ new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...

A big fish story? Maybe so: The greatest sea monster of the Devonian Period (Dunkleosteus terrelli) may be getting downsized. A new article contents that the famous sea monster of the Age of Fishes ...

Cleveland’s iconic prehistoric sea monster—the 14-foot-long armored fish Dunkleosteus terrelli—just got a lot stranger. This marine apex predator lived some 360 million years ago, had razor-sharp bone ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

A giant species of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, new to science, has been described in a study published in PLOS ONE. The lobe-finned fish, about three-metres long, referred to as ‘one who eats others ...

Dunkleosteus was a massive armored fish that ruled the Devonian seas over 358 million years ago. With powerful, self-sharpening jaws and an immense bite force, it was one of the most fearsome ...