Best Fossil Fish
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...
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...
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...
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...
