Project Description

(419 – 359 million years ago) — Mascot: Tiktaalik — Life during the Devonian bifurcated into land and ocean. The first vertebrate animals capable of venturing out of the water appear. Tiktaalik is a primitive lobe finned fish named for the Inuit word for a species of modern day cod. But the Devonian is also known as “The Age of Fish,” due to the rapid diversification of boney fish and sharks.