News tagged with fossil fishes
Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'
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.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Chicken-hearted tyrants: Predatory dinosaurs as baby killers
Two titans fighting a bloody battle -- that often turns fatal for both of them. This is how big predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus are often depicted while hunting down their supposed prey: even larger herbivorous dinosaurs. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Swedish researcher finds missing piece of fossil puzzle
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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 13, 2009 |
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New fossil tells how piranhas got their teeth
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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 25, 2009 |
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High carbon dioxide levels cause abnormally large fish ear bones
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 ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
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 ...
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Preserved shark fossil adds evidence to great white's origins
A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Fossil fish shows oldest live birth
(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.
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex
(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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Feb 25, 2009 |
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New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
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 ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 15, 2009 |
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