and Europe discovered an exceptionally well-preserved ancient primitive Devonian coelacanth fish in remote Western Australia. This fossil discovery suggests that plate tectonics also significantly ...
Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...
Around 380 million years ago, the site was a tropical reef teeming with more than 50 species of fish. Ngamugawi wirngarri, the new fossil coelacanth, is the first fish found in the area to bear a ...
The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...
The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...
Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...
Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...
A team led by Flinders University in Australia and included experts from Canada, Australia and Europe, found the two fossilized fish, which they named Ngamugawi wirngarri, in Western Australia. The ...