4 min read When the Devonian period dawned about 416 ... to move in shallow waters or even on land. The fish showed other characteristics of terrestrial animals, including ribs, a neck, and ...

when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian period, the world was changing dramatically: complex plant ecosystems formed on land, the first ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...

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 ...

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.