A paleontologist based at the University of Manitoba (U of M) has confirmed a significant fossil discovery that reshapes how ...

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its ...

To date, over 50 species of fossil fish have been identified at Gogo. This diverse group of fish, coupled with that of marine invertebrates, cohabited in a Devonian warm sea coral reef around 380 ...

Quirks and Quarks: Devonian fish Researchers long assumed these fish had primitive structures like sharks, but the discovery of tissue on the 380-million-year-old fossils, reported in the journal ...

Another 120 pieces of two other specimens of lobe-finned fossil fish dating from the Late Devonian Period are among them. They will be officially housed at the museum in Gatineau, Que., on behalf ...

Thirty years after 4,000 pristine fish fossils dating back 360 million years were discovered in regional NSW, a retired doctor is reopening the dig in the hope of finding the first animals to walk ...

These weird old fish lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods, between about 444 and 380 million years ago, and they were some of the first vertebrates to evolve mineralized skeletons.

With the advent of an X-ray method called “synchrotron microtomography” – first used on the Gogo fossils in 2010 – more muscles were revealed from the Gogo placoderms, including neck and abdominal ...

An extinct lobe-finned fish, a sleek species with large canines and bony scales from the Middle-Late Devonian period, which lasted for about 380 million years has been discovered in Australia.