News tagged with fossil fishes
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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Before animals first walked on land, fish carried gene program for limbs
Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers have discovered.
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Dynasty of plankton-eating giants from Age of Dinosaurs revealed in new study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Giant plankton-eating fish filled the prehistoric seas for more than 100 million years before they were wiped out in the same event that killed off the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence claims.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Study gives clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age
(PhysOrg.com) -- New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period. It turns out it ended up in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2010 |
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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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Novel studies of decomposition shed new light on our earliest fossil ancestry (w/ Video)
Decaying corpses are usually the domain of forensic scientists, but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light on our earliest ancestry.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 31, 2010 |
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Getting inside the mind (and up the nose) of our ancient ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Reorganisation of the brain and sense organs could be the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates, one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, according to a paper by an international ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 17, 2011 |
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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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A new theory emerges for where some fish became four-limbed creatures
A small fish crawling on stumpy limbs from a shrinking desert pond is an icon of can-do spirit, emblematic of a leading theory for the evolutionary transition between fish and amphibians. This theorized image ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Rotten experiments help to create picture of our early ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative experiment at the University of Leicester that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Study of fish fossil shows that 'head-first' diversity drives vertebrate evolution
The history of evolution is periodically marked by explosions in biodiversity, as groups of species try out a wide range of shapes and sizes. With a new analysis of two such adaptive radiations in the fossil ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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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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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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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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Ocean acidification may directly harm fish: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossil fuel combustion, and with it the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), is still growing globally. Beyond climate change, this is also causing the world’s “other ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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