New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
A skull of Romundina, one of the earliest jawed fish, is shown in this image courtesy of Uppsala University in Sweden. REUTERS/Philippe Loubry, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC/Handout (Reuters) By Will Dunham ...
The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago.Jeremy Marble/University of Michigan News Scientists discovered the fossilized brain ...
New fossils illuminate the evolution of land vertebrates from fish Walter Gilberti 1 May 2006 A major fossil discovery at a site in northern Canada has provided compelling evidence of the evolutionary ...
The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago. The fish is facing to the right, with the jaws visible in the lower right portion ...
(CNN) — Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by plates made of cartilage. Scientists are still ...
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 the bodies ...
Artist's reconstruction showing the life stages of the fossil lamprey Priscomyzon riniensis. It lived around 360 million years ago in a coastal lagoon in what is now South Africa. Clockwise from right ...
The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. The ...
A stunningly preserved, soft-bodied fish that is more than 500 million years old could be the ancestor of almost all living vertebrates. The fossilized fish, called Metaspriggina, sports ...
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