Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it ...

The placoderms were a diverse group of ancient armoured fishes and it’s widely believed that they are ancestral to virtually all vertebrates alive today, including humans. Placoderms dominated aquatic ...

(Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have unearthed beautifully preserved fossilized hearts and other internal organs of ancient armored fish in a discovery that provides insight into the evolution of ...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared at The Conversation. We humans use the euphemism for sex that “we like to get a leg over” but the first jawed vertebrates – the placoderms – they liked to ...

John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council and Flinders University. The intimate act of copulation is old – very old. In fact, it first evolved in ancient armoured placoderm ...

An international team of scientists has described a rare fossil site that is believed to be among the earliest evidence of different fish species using a common nursery — much like ones utilized by ...

Almost all gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans, chondrichthyans, ‘acanthodians’ and most placoderms) possess paired pectoral and pelvic fins. To date, it has generally been ...

John Long receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Lets face it – without a face no-one would recognise us, nor would we be able to guess what others might be thinking or feeling. Faces ...

When an Australian scientist uncovered an ancient-looking placoderm skull in the 1960s, he thought he'd cracked the code on an evolutionary mystery. This so-called 'platypus fish,' scientists had ...

Measuring just 12 inches in length, the Qilinyu Rostrata, which lived more than 400 million years ago, was no apex predator. Belonging to the now-extinct armored fish group called placoderms, it was ...

You might take it for granted now, but your jaw is the result of an evolutionary journey lasting over 400 million years. This claim comes from a new study, which found the iconic feature that helps us ...