A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today, according to a team of European ...

Scientists say they have discovered a fossil of the oldest known vertebrate animal with a jaw -- a strange chimera of a fish that could unseat the shark as a representative of extremely “primitive” ...

Figure 1: Fossils relevant to early jawed-vertebrate evolution derive from major fossil sites in North America and Europe, and increasingly China and Australia. Crown-, total- and stem-group concepts ...

PARIS - The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek, shark-like beast but a toothless, armoured fish, said a study Wednesday that rewrites mankind's evolutionary history.

When we lose our milk teeth they are replaced by new permanent teeth growing out in exactly the same positions. This is an ancient part of our evolutionary heritage and an identifying characteristic ...

John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Brian Choo receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jaws are crucial to the evolutionary success of many animals, yet ...

Is a 419-million-year-old armoured fish from the end of the Silurian period Los Angeles: Scientists say they have discovered a fossil of the oldest known vertebrate animal with a jaw — a strange ...