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

The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several ...

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.

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

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.

Lots of species were lost at the end of the Devonian period, which ended about 358.9 million years ago, to a mass extinction and the diversity of fish declined, Wilson wrote in a June 24 article ...

Researchers in Nova Scotia discovered a new predatory fish species, Sphyragnathus tyche, offering new insights into evolution after the Devonian extinction.

What is the Devonian period? The Devonian is a geological period spanning from 416 to 359 million years ago. Known as the "age of fish," it is marked by the rise of numerous aquatic species, ...

By the Devonian Period, which spanned from 419 million to 359 million years ago, jawed fishes were a global phenomenon, earning that era the nickname “Age of Fishes” (SN: 7/17/18).