New research based on x-ray imaging provides the strongest evidence to date that sharks arose from a group of bony fishes called acanthodians. Analyzing an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil of an ...
“Major vertebrate evolutionary transitions, such as ‘fin to limb’ and ‘dinosaur to bird’ are substantiated by numerous fossil discoveries,” coauthor John Maisey of the American Museum of Natural ...
The 415-million-year-old-fossil was excavated from Herefordshire, UK A fossil fish is shedding light on the evolution of jawed vertebrates. It is one of the earliest known jawed fish in the fossil ...
New research based on x-ray imaging provides the strongest evidence to date that sharks arose from a group of bony fishes called acanthodians. Analyzing an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil of an ...