Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...
Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...
A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...
Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...
Kate Trinajstic receives funding from ARC Discovery Project I am a research associate at the WA Museum John Long receives funding from the Australian Research Council In the limestone ranges of ...
A giant species of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, new to science, has been described in a study published in PLOS ONE. The lobe-finned fish, about three-metres long, referred to as ‘one who eats others ...