The Devonian, part of the Paleozoic era, is otherwise known as the Age of Fishes, as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that ...
On the sidewalks of Inverness, remnants of ancient fish from the Devonian period have been spotted by a keen eye. Their discovery casts new light on the geological history of this Scottish region.
In 1980, Devonian fish fossils were uncovered in the city's Plover Cove area. The fossils authenticate the rocks' Devonian Period origins and date back roughly 400 million years. In 2014 ...
The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to increase through donations and fieldwork by Museum staff most recently in Morocco and Oxford. In 2007, a large donation by David Kemp ...
The fish date from the Devonian period, which are thought to include evidence of a fin. Mr Ryan said: "I brought them to the attention of a palaeontologist who studies these fossils and they were ...
Placoderms were the most abundant and diverse group of fish during the Devonian period, which was 419 to 359 million years ago. From small bottom-dwellers to giant predators, placoderms occupied ...
The earliest "babies" known to science have been uncovered in the remains of a primitive fish found in Orkney ... cut through rock formed in the Mid-Devonian epoch. They are at least three ...