Ancient fish

The coelacanth is a rare marine fish that is a living representative of an ancient lineage of formerly common fishes.

Devonian Fish Series #11: Fish of the Hunsruck slate, Germany (Emsian): The Heterostraci Drepanaspis and the placoderms Lunaspis, Gemuendina, Stensioella, and Pseudopetalichthys

The ancient placoderm fish Brindabellaspis might be the ancestor of modern jawed vertebrates according to new scientific research

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Dunkleosteus (meaning "Dunkle's bone") was a large placoderm fish that lived in the late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.[1] It has been estimated to have grew to 4.1 metres (12.3 feet), and was the top predator of its time and the Paleozoic era as a whole. Dunkleosteus belongs to the Placodermi, a large, paraphyletic clade of armor-plated fishes likely ancestral to all living gnathostomes. More precisely, it was an arthodire, part of a clade which possessed skulls that had…

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Edouard Manet once called still life "the touchstone of painting."

Starting with the Devonian series. Here is a sampling of early Devonian fish from the MacKenzie mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Promesacanthus, Brochoadmones, Canadapteraspis, Lepidaspis, Nahanniaspis, Sphenonectris, Furcacauda, Superciliaspis by Nobumichi Tamura

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Bring 'em back alive! That's exactly what some zoologists are doing when they re-discover living populations of species previously thought to be extinct.