Mastodawn

#lobefinnedfish #devonian 419 359 million years ago canada tiktaalik was discovered in the canadian arctic some 600 miles 970 km south of the #northpole in the language of the local #inuit tiktaalik means shallow water fish

TrèsFluke Feb 18

"Four-legged animals first moved onto land about 375 million years ago, during the Devonian period."

That was a mistake.

#Devonian

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/tyrannoroter-fossil-herbivore-9.7094046?cmp=rss

This creature may have been the first four-legged herbivore | CBC News

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

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myrmepropagandist Feb 7

@DelilahTech

Let's go back to the best fossils and really look and think about what we are seeing and what it could mean with this organism.

#prototaxites #unsolved_mystery #Devonian

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Jan 22

Scientists may have discovered a new extinct form of life https://phys.org/news/2026-01-scientists-extinct-life.html

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277

"#Prototaxites was the 1st giant organism on the terrestrial surface, represented by #fossils of up to 8m from the #Devonian... fossils of P. taiti were chemically distinct from contemporaneous #Fungi, structurally distinct from all known Fungi. This casts doubt upon its fungal affinity"

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐Jan 21

El Kolihapeltis pudo haber usado su pigidio plano para estabilizarse en el fondo marino y nadar cortas distancias.📷Peter Halasz #trilobite #devonico #devonian

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐Jan 18

Quadrops flexuosa es un trilobite del Devónico medio con un rostrum en forma de tenedor, aunque algunos especímenes, que pueden ser de otra especie, lo tienen en forma de cuchara. 🏛️Museo Field de Historia Natural 📷James St. John #Devonico #Devonian #trilobite