While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

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Paula Regan / SWNS Photos taken by Paula on the day of the discovery show what appears to be a carved wooden creature with the tail of a fish and the torso and head of an alien-like creature. “ ...

In 1805, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, bought the two skeletons that he believed belonged to Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas.

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Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

Sheepshead Fish. Image by Linda Tanner, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The aquatic realm teems with an array of ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals. At the time ...

So far, 33 skeletons have been found near Eptapyrgio prison northeast of the city, a former Byzantine-era fortress later known as Yedi Kule under Ottoman rule, city officials said in a statement.