The Museum’s large collection of fossil fishes contains approximately 90,000 specimens, of which 5,000 are type or figured specimens. The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to ...

The Manchester team were led by Professors Phil Manning and Roy Wogelius, who used powerful x-rays generated at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) (a cyclic particle accelerator) to ...

Eyeless, jawless, and dependent on their sense of ... The lungfish is the only living fossil fish to have a rock band named after it. The first living lungfish was discovered in the 1830s, almost ...

Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony ... Ivan Sansom said, "The application of CT scanning techniques to the study of fossil fish is revealing so much new information about these ...

Fish started becoming more widespread in the fossil record. They were small and had downward-pointing, jawless mouths, indicating they lived by sucking and filtering food from the seabed.

The research team previously considered the creature as a relative of hagfish, a jawless vertebrate ... a primitive fish that is referred to as a “living fossil,” and the lungfish.