FOSSILS+AND+LANDFORMS

Over the hundreds of millions of years that our planet has been here fossils have been made. What fossils were made in the [|Devonian] time? How can they help us figure out what organisms lived then? During the Devonian time many mountains were forming, so it's a safe bet that many fossils from that time will be on or around mountains like the Tiktaalik which was found on top of a mountain in the Canadian Arctic. However, it is hard to find good fossils in New England because of the severe geological changes it has faced, so the majority of fossils have been found in other countries. The Icthyostega and early tetrapods were found in an area on the west coast of Africa where it used to be connected to South America. All of these fossils have something in common... they are MILLIONS of years old! So many changes have occured over the millions of years that the planet has been here and fossils are only one way that we can be connected to the past.