Oldest vertebrate fish mother found. An armored fish was about to become a mom some 380 million years ago. ... Examples in the fossil record of animals giving birth are extremely rare.

A major fossil discovery at a site in northern Canada has provided compelling evidence of the evolutionary transition from ancient fish to the first tetrapods—four-legged terrestrial vertebrates ...

Bony Vertebrate Evolution: Elephant Sharks Closer To Humans Than Teleost Fish. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 04 / 070402215358.htm ...

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago.Jeremy Marble/University of Michigan News Scientists discovered the fossilized ...

A newfound fossil of a jawless fish is the oldest known vertebrate cranium preserved in 3D. The 455 million-year-old find could illuminate how vertebrate heads evolved.

Scientists have unearthed fossilized fish larvae suggesting ancient lamprey hatchlings looked more like modern adult lampreys than their modern larvae counterparts -- undermining a popular theory ...

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. The ...

(CN) — A 150-year-old theory that hatchlings of modern lampreys — a kind of blind, jawless fish — closely resemble their ancestral vertebrates has been upended after new fossil analysis showed both ...

A 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, which revealed the "oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain," offers new insights into the evolution of early bony fish, researchers found in a ...