Ancient Armored Fish Rewrites the 410-Million-Year-Old Story of a Weird Jawed Vertebrate Clan
A 410-million-year-old armored fish from Yunnan, China, pushes back the fossil record of euantiarchs by 10 million years and reveals ...
Tag: Devonian
Twenty-Five Years of Fossil Record: A Quarter Century of Palaeontological Publishing and the Story of How Vertebrates Walked Onto Land
A special issue of Fossil Record marks the journal's 25th anniversary with new research on the fish-to-tetrapod transition and the ...
Ancient Armored Fish from China Rewrites the Story of a Devonian Giant
Newly collected fossils and CT scanning reveal the full anatomy of Bothriolepis yunnanensis, extending its range across the Middle Devonian ...
Sea Scorpion Fossil From China Rewrites the Family Tree of Ancient Predators
A newly recovered slab from Yunnan Province preserves two individuals of the enigmatic sea scorpion Malongia mirabilis, revealing dorsal anatomy ...
Devonian traces in Morocco reveal ancient roots of complex arthropod behaviour
In the stony deserts of southeastern Morocco, some 16 kilometres southeast of the fossil-trading town of Erfoud, a small ridge ...
Sturgeon experiments reveal early tetrapods had surprisingly stiff necks
Material tests on lake sturgeon reveal that the earliest land-dwelling vertebrates had surprisingly rigid necks, suggesting the head–shoulder separation evolved ...
Genomes and Fossils Resolve a Century-Old Mystery of Insect Wing Evolution
A new phylogenomic and fossil-calibrated study confirms that mayflies and dragonflies form the ancient group Palaeoptera and that foldable wings ...
Ancient Zircons Reveal a Lost River System That Carved Europe’s Deep Past
New detrital zircon evidence from the Czech Republic shows that the Brunia terrane shared an ancient arc with Avalonia and ...
Ancient Armoured Fish Evolved Two Surprising Ways to Crush Their Prey
Flinders University researchers used finite element analysis of fossil jaws to reveal that Devonian placoderms evolved two distinct strategies for ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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