Scientists at Queensland Museum have uncovered a 400-million-year-old vertebrate fossil, which could be the smallest of its ...
Queensland Museum scientists have described a 400-million-year-old fossil, which is possibly the smallest vertebrate fossil ...
Jawless fishes, the 'sister' group of jawed vertebrates, use leucine-rich repeat–containing proteins as antigen receptors. New work shows that the two isotypes of variable lymphocyte receptors ...
A tropical reef in the Czech Republic, 409 million years ago: Radotina, one of the most primitive jawed vertebrates with teeth, emerges from its hiding place in the empty shell of a giant nautiloid to ...
Named palaeospondylus australis, the Queensland find marks the first time the genus has been found outside Scotland. It's ...
During early evolution of jawed vertebrates, dermal denticles were transferred from the skins of primitive fish to their mouth. In the millennia that followed, the tiny appendages went on to ...
The results have helped answer questions on when these ancient, jawless fish branched-off the vertebrate evolutionary tree. The discovery is incredibly important as it changes our view of the ...