The first ammonoids also arose during the Devonian. Related to octopuses and squid, these marine animals survived until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Plants began ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

Diversity increased progressively through the Palaeozoic, and in the Devonian forms started to appear with massive ... more effective lanterns than their contemporaries. The Palaeozoic fauna shows a ...

The Canowindra fauna is a very rich Late Devonian fish fauna. All of the fossil specimens are preserved on a single bedding plane, part of an ancient fish community which had been trapped in a ...

The oldest winged fossil dates back 330 million years ago, suggesting that insects were among the first animals to leave the oceans for land during the Devonian period some 400 million years ago.