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 ...

Quarry men found the first fossil in early Devonian deposits in ... Reptiles evolved as the first land-dwelling animals around the middle of the period, and sharks and bony fishes replaced the ...

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 ...

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.

Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land animals said ... and movement styles of ancient fish from the Late Devonian period—when their evolution began—as well as present ...