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New research confirms a common origin of sound production and acoustic communication among choanate vertebrates (lungfishes and tetrapods), dating from the Paleozoic era.

Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart -- the oldest ever found -- alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.

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In 1938, Methuselah arrived in San Francisco on a boat from Queensland, Australia and took up residence at the Steinhart Aquarium. Methuselah is a lungfish who, at around 90-years-old, is thought t…

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a "living fossil." A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate tectonics were most active.

Coelacanths rapidly evolved as the Earth shook about 400 million years ago.

A new study has found that the famous Australian lungfish Methuselah, who first arrived in the U.S. in 1938, could be up to 101 years old.

A recent discovery in Thailand shows what many herbivores looked like 150 million years ago, a time when the spry animals coexisted with much larger predators.

Scientists from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a new tool, named Bambu, which uses artificial intelligence to identify and characterize new genes, enabling an adaptable analysis across various species and samples. With a better understanding of which and how genes are expressed in samples, Bambu provides a better understanding of how cells function.

Wollemia nobilis has, in a sense, outlived the dinosaurs. Encountering it can be like seeing a dinosaur-era insect encased in ancient amber brought to life. Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova CC BY-SA 4.0 Australia's Secret Rescue of Ancient Trees Offers an Insight Into Evolution By Brian Gallagher Sign up for our monthly newsletter! When I read that...

From lungfish to turtles: Animals thought to be silent, until now  New ScientistOrigins of acoustic communication date back 400 million years  The HinduScientists Thought These 53 Species Were Silent. Now, They've Recorded Their Sounds  Smithsonian MagazineThe sounds of animals thought to be silent...until now  New ScientistView Full Coverage on Google News

A new study dispelled the notion that dozens of sea creatures long thought to not audibly communicate actually do, including turtles and lungfish.

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Paleontologists have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart – the oldest ever found – alongside a separate fossilized liver, stomach, and intestine in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies. Vital new evolutionary clues are provided by the research, which fo

Meet Methuselah, the fish that likes to eat fresh figs, get belly rubs and is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world.

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An unassuming freshwater fish contains the longest genomic sequence ever discovered, measuring in at 30 times the length of the human DNA chain.

A new species of ancient lungfish from the Triassic period has been identified from fossilized tooth plate material found in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe.

Every 10 million years, lungfish have added a human genome's worth of junk DNA.