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 ...

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 ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work ...

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 ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents ...

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