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Fossil fish shows oldest live birth
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature.
New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and th ...
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Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team includ ...
Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.
Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments ...
Chinese report important fish fossil find
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May 05, 2006 |
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Chinese researchers say a newly discovered fish species that lived more than 400 million years ago may represent a bridge between two vertebrate lineages.
'Incredibly lucky' find yields important fish fossil
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Sep 07, 2007 |
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Searching for a different kind of riches in the ground, an oil company made a priceless find it never expected.
New fossil tells how piranhas got their teeth
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Jun 25, 2009 |
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How did piranhas -- the legendary freshwater fish with the razor bite -- get their telltale teeth? Researchers from Argentina, the United States and Venezuela have uncovered the jawbone of a striking transitional ...
Aussie scientists discover oldest proof of live birth
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May 28, 2008 |
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Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity.
Victorian fish fossil fills ancient gap
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Aug 28, 2006 |
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The oldest known fossil coelacanth has just been described by Macquarie University researchers in the international journal Biology Letters, in conjunction with colleagues in Victoria and Paris.
High carbon dioxide levels cause abnormally large fish ear bones
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has ...
Fresh fossil evidence of eye forerunner uncovered
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye, a scientist from The Australian National University says.
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