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 sea -- the salt deposits under Lake Erie another likely relic of that time - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – Ohio was once home to a fish that is ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, our aquatic ancestors evolved to live on land. While most scientists suspect this transition was spurred by the evolution of fins to limbs, it ...

First teeth The world's first teeth grew outside of the mouth before later moving into the oral cavity, new research on Early Devonian fish suggests. The study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate ...