Fishes

A Vertebrate, in simplest terms, is an animal with a backbone. These drawers house the history of the vertebrates.
The story of vertebrates starts 545 million years ago. It can be a little hard to get your head around that number. 545 million seconds is about seventeen and a quarter years.

The story of vertebrate life starts here, with creatures called jawless fish.

The Fishes from Ted Rogers on Vimeo.

Most of these fish have been extinct for millions of years. The Placoderms went extinct in the late Devonian period, in part of a larger mass extinction. Acanthodians lasted a little longer, disappearing in the Permian extinction event.