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In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several ...

Earth's current climate is considered an "icehouse climate" due to the existence of polar ice caps. This is important because ...

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A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, from the museum’s education and outreach collection. National Museum of Natural History Snails are among the ...

Amniotes are thought to have diverged from amphibians at the dawn of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Mammals would diverge from reptiles and birds only 30 million years later.

It's quite possible. Only more fieldwork, bringing to light new discoveries of Devonian and Carboniferous fossils from the old Gondwana continents, might one day answer that question.

Most scientists agree amphibians and amniotes separated at the start of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Later in the period, the amniote lineage split further into the ancestors ...