The fossil set included a 3-centimeter-long placoderm, an armored prehistoric fish that was the earliest known jawed vertebrate called Xiushanosteus mirabilis. This fossil shed light on the ...

A boomerang-shaped fish was the most common fossil found in the two deposits, Erik Ahlberg of Sweden’s Uppsala University, an author of one of the studies, told The Associated Press. A man found ...

This illustration provided by Heming Zhang in September 2022 depicts Xiushanosteus mirabilis, one of the fossil fish, ... DINOSAUR SKELETON TO BE AUCTIONED IN NYC, FOSSIL IS 76 MILLION-YEARS-OLD.

Now, a new fossilized fish skeleton found in China is older than the next-oldest specimen by a whopping 15 million years and is the, “oldest undisputed jawed fish.” ...

M ore than 500 million years ago, as myriad new lifeforms were emerging and diversifying in the world’s oceans, a small, wormlike fish called the yunnanozoan (Yunnanozoan livitidum) flourished around ...

Some 385 million years ago during the Late Devonian period, a fish strolled from the water onto the shore in search of a new home. Its fins were robust enough that it could get around on land ...

Paris - The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek, shark-like beast but a toothless, armoured fish, said a study on Wednesday that rewrites Man's evolutionary history.

NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite.

Cooper is enthusiastic about studying fossil fish. “Fish fossils,” he wrote, “are among the most common and often best preserved of all vertebrates in the fossil record, particularly due to ...

A research team including a Penn State biologist completed a new reconstruction of the skeleton of Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fossil fish that is one of the closest relatives to limbed ...

Fossils of giant marine reptiles found high in the Swiss Alps Primordial octopus was up in arms - 10 instead of eight Fish once labeled a 'living fossil' surprises scientists again ...