News tagged with fossil fishes
Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
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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 ...
Swedish researcher finds missing piece of fossil puzzle
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Jul 13, 2009 |
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The mode of reproduction seen in modern sharks is nearly 400 million years old. That is the conclusion drawn by Professor Per Erik Ahlberg, Uppsala University, from his discovery of a so-called "clasper" in a primitive fossil ...
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 ...
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 species of ghostshark from California and Baja California
Sep 22, 2009 |
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New species are not just discovered in exotic locales -- even places as urban as California still yield discoveries of new plants and animals. Academy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ...
Discovery of 450 Million Years Old 'Missing Link'
Apr 27, 2005 |
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A 15-year search for fossils in Africa has led to the discovery of eight fish specimens that are 450 million years old – 50 million years older than any previous fish fossil on the continent and amongst the oldest in the ...
How fishes conquered the ocean
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Jan 24, 2007 |
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Scientists at the University of Bergen, Norway have deduced how bony fishes conquered the oceans by duplicating their yolk-producing genes and filling their eggs with the water of life – the degradation of yolk proteins from ...
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 ...
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