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Tiktaalik roseae is an extinct lobe-finned fish from the Late Devonian, known from fossils discovered on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, in 2004. It combined fish characteristics, including scales and fin rays, with a mobile neck, robust ribs, a flattened skull, and limb-like internal bones cap...
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Textbook transitional fossil between fish and tetrapods; exceptional predictive discovery and broad acclaim.
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Haikouichthys ercaicunensis is a small, fishlike chordate from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan, China, dating to roughly 518 million years ago. Fossils show a distinct head region, repeated muscle blocks, gill structures, and fin folds, features associated with early vertebrate organiz...
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Among oldest vertebrates, crucial for early fish origins; small but highly significant fossils.
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John A. Long is an Australian paleontologist whose research focuses on fossil fishes and the early evolution of vertebrates. He was part of the team that described Materpiscis attenboroughi, a Devonian placoderm fossil preserving an embryo and an associated mineralized umbilical structure, providing...
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Acclaimed fossil-fish specialist and productive science communicator; significant discoveries with broad professional recognition.
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George F. Sternberg was an American fossil collector and museum curator associated especially with vertebrate fossils from the Cretaceous rocks of Kansas. In 1952, he excavated the well-known "fish-within-a-fish" specimen, a large Xiphactinus containing a smaller fish in its body cavity. His fieldwo...
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Respected fossil collector and museum curator with substantial Kansas discoveries; narrower influence than Charles H. Sternberg.
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