(PhysOrg.com) -- A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists unveiled on Thursday the fossilized remains of the oldest vertebrate mother ever discovered, a 375-million-year-old placoderm fish with embryo and umbilical ...
... 2 or 3 million years old).
That fossil evidence from the rock desert and cold, treeless ... thick deposits of lake sediments with abundant fossil fish and shells," Yang said. "This begs the question: ...
... examined several specimens of two kinds of fossil fishes from the Eocene (about 50 million years ... preserves the remains its last meal in its stomach: a fish nearly half its own length.
"It is certain ...
A seaside stone that had been decorating a home owner's ornamental pond for 15 years might actually be an 80-million-year-old fossilized fish head, experts say.
A fossil fish is shedding light on the evolution of jawed vertebrates, according to a Swedish study.
... Researchers imaging the fossil of a 300-million-year-old fish from Kansas have unexpectedly found a fossilized brain in the animal's skull -- the oldest known brain found to date.
... fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 ... kinds of direct measurements are possible in fossil fishes because many are represented by complete, articulated individuals ...
... words, other fishes. The fossil record provides some remarkable evidence supporting these estimates of function: fossil fishes with preserved stomach contents that record their last meals.
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... fossil that sheds light on this question. Named Megapiranha paranensis, this previously unknown fossil fish bridges the evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas and their plant-eating cousins. ...
... drawn by Professor Per Erik Ahlberg, Uppsala University, from his discovery of a so-called "clasper" in a primitive fossil fish earlier this year. The research results are published today ...
Japanese researchers have filmed a young coelacanth - a rare fish known as a "living fossil" - deep in the ocean off Indonesia.
... -million-year-old Arctic fossil fish reveals that the walking fish could nod its head and may have breathed air. The discovery offers new clues to how our fish ancestors evolved into land dwellers.
... lived in the Devonian period some 410 million years ago. It represents a type of fossil fish known as an "acanthodian" which is characterized by a somewhat shark-like appearance and sharp spines along ...
... in four directions. A palm that flowers itself to death, a deep blue damselfish, and a 380m-year old fossil fish believe to be the oldest known live-bearing vertebrate complete the ...
