Archeology
New discovery of 380 million year old giant fish fossil
For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been known as the
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Archeology
A 375-million-year-old sea monster that grows legs reveals the secret to changing the earth
The sea monsters of the Devonian period are evidence of the evolutionary leap that enabled us to walk on continents today.
Archeology
Discovering a 324 million-year-old shark 'born from the dead' in the US
The mysterious shark rose from the dead world after the Devonian extinction, with a completely strange anatomical structure compared to modern sharks.
Biology
When did the first forests on Earth appear?
Plants appeared on land about 470 million years ago, but trees and forests did not form until nearly 390 million years ago.
Archeology
Two extinct creatures appeared intact after 400 million years
Two legendary names Excalibur and Shuriken have been given by paleontologists to two creatures from the world lost before the Devonian period of the Earth.
Archeology
A series of surprises about 'monster fish' existed in Vietnam 415 million years ago
The monster with the bizarre triangular head is a creature that is in the process of evolving from jawless vertebrates to jawed vertebrates.
Archeology
Ancient fish revealed the mystery of the origin of the human finger
Why do we have fingers, what does the number of these fingers mean in terms of evolution?
Archeology
Dunkleosteus: The 'Terminator' of the Devonian
Before the dinosaurs appeared, the Earth also existed many species of animals known as the notorious assassins, many of which are from the ocean and Dunkleosteus is one…
Archeology
The 380 million-year-old fossil of fish walking on land
The researchers discovered the fossils of a multi-finger finfish that lived on Earth in the late Devonian.
Archeology
Hundreds of millions of fossil pine forests in China
The researchers found fossilized pine forests as large as 35 football fields, growing 359 - 419 million years ago in Anhui province.
Archeology
Excavation of 380 million year old fossil forest
The forest is located in the town of Gilboa, New York (USA) today excavated for the first time in the 1920s. But recently, a construction project helped discover the bot…
Archeology
Finding scorpion fossils 415 million years ago
A group of scientists has discovered many fossilized remains of the winged scorpion in the white silt layers, at the quarry of Chieng village, Hai Phong.
Archeology
The 380-million-year-old fish fossil carries the fetus
In 2005, the Victoria museum expedition led by Dr. John Long went to the Gogo fossil excavation site in northwestern Australia. Here they obtained strange fossils, which…