During the Devonian Period the first ray finned and lobe-finned bony fish evolved. The pectoral and pelvic fins of lobe-finned fish evolved into legsas they started to walk on land as tetrapods ...

The study of the evolution of limbs during the Devonian period, some 375 million years ago, has mostly focused on the development of upper arm, forearm, wrist and digits -- knowledge gleaned from ...

The film discusses the evolution of amphibians, highlighting their origins from fish-like ancestors that adapted to land during the Devonian period. It explains how these primitive animals ...

Fish world. When E. watsoni was alive, some 380 million years ago, during the Devonian period, fishes ruled the world.It would be another 150 million years before dinosaurs came into being.. E ...

This fish, measuring up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, is the largest bony fish on record from the Late Devonian (383 million to 359 million years ago) and was predatory, prompting researchers to ...

An ancient fish sported something like fingers that were the precursors to our own digits, according to an analysis of a new fossil skeleton. IE 11 is not supported.

TD: What makes the late Devonian, 370 million years ago, a particularly interesting fossil period is that there was such a wide diversity of basic kinds of fish in the world, many more basic kinds ...

The oldest coelacanth fossils date back to approximately 420 million years ago, which places them at the beginning of the Devonian period. The Devonian was a period within the Paleozoic era ...

The discovery of an ancient fish fossil in Canada reveals how the human hand may have actually evolved from a meter-long fish with arm-like fins that lived some 380 million years ago.

Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors. Nearly 440-million-year-old finds from China are of some of the first vertebrates with jaws ...

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, ...