A research team from the University of Manitoba has discovered a new genus of placoderm fish, named Elmosteus lundarensis, one of the earliest fish to develop bones, a jaw and teeth.

Diagram showing the dermal jaw bones from fish to human. The first four-legged animals colonised land 400 million years ago after fish fins evolved into limbs allowing them to crawl out of the water.

D scans of ancient lungfish jaws reveal how early fish evolved to eat differently - offering fresh insight into vertebrate ...

The fish, entelognathus primordialis (meaning “primordial complete jaw”), is the oldest known animal to have face-forming jaw and cheek bones comparable to those of today’s bony fishes and ...

Paleontologists in China uncovered a 419-million-year-old fish fossil with the earliest known version of modern jaw and facial bones. The find is standing one evolutionary view on its head.

Looking at the jaw bones of Entelognathus and Qilinyu we can see that they, in both fishes, combine characters of the bony fish jaw bones ...

This fish, called Metaspriggina, doesn’t look like a game-changer, but it’s the first step towards modernity.Metaspriggina, which emerged 505 million years ago, has all sort of wild ...

"The human jaw is quite directly connected to the jaw of this fish, and that's what makes it so interesting." The bones comprising the fish's cheek and jaws appear essentially the same as those ...

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 ...

China fish fossil reveals where our jaws come from---The discovery of the 423 ... But further back in time, only one other group of fishes, the extinct placoderms, have a similar set of jaw bones.

The study, conducted by Min Zhu and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, used a fossil from the jaws of an ancient fish that was discovered in 2013 and a new fossil.