A giant species of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, new to science, has been described in a study published in PLOS ONE. The lobe-finned fish, about three-metres long, referred to as ‘one who eats ...

You might just discover that you’re a lobe-finned fish in disguise. The Ancient Waters: A World Dominated by Fins Long before the first forests took root or the dinosaurs thundered across the ...

A newly discovered species of ancient predatory fish in Nova Scotia sheds light on how early ray-finned fish evolved new ways ...

Researchers studying fossils near Makhanda have unearthed and described in their latest paper a giant 360 million-year-old killer fish species with fangs that likely preyed on humans’ ancestors.

Meet Harajicadectes zhumini, a newly described predatory fish species that prowled the rivers of Central Australia during the Middle-Late Devonian period, about 380 million years ago.Harajicadectes ...

By 1999, the fish was officially considered a new species separate from the Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) ... Coelacanths are one of the last remaining lobe-finned fish, ...

An extinct lobe-finned fish, a sleek species with large canines and bony scales from the Middle-Late Devonian period, which lasted for about 380 million years has been discovered in Australia.

But we humans, along with bears, lizards, hummingbirds and Tyrannosaurus rex, are actually lobe-finned fish. It might sound bizarre but the evidence is in our genes , anatomy and in fossils .

There are more than 30,000 species of fish as we know them today (not in the evolutionary sense), of which only a handful can “walk”. Sarcopterygians differ from other types of fish in several ...

These spines set it apart from current jawed fish as well as cartilage containing sharks and rays and bony ray- and lobe-finned fish. The new species was uncovered in the bone bed samples of the ...