Our ability to move with both flexibility and stability is an essential trait that defines us as vertebrates. A new study ...

Ancient fish had synovial joints, challenging the idea that flexible skeletons evolved on land. Fossils and modern fish show ...

The same joint architecture and developmental process found in human joints is present in sharks and skates, showing this biological design has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of ...

Furthermore, the researchers employed CT-scans to identify a similar cavitated joint in the fossil fish Bothriolepis, the most ancient known synovial joint. Altogether, these results show that ...

Devonian armoured fossil fish, Bothriolepis canadensis, from Quebec Macropoma lewesiensis one of the last coelacanth fishes lived in the clear water chalk seas of southern England 85 mya, and grew to ...

This is the first time a fish fossil has been found at the source of the Pearl River, marking the discovery of a new species of Bothriolepis in nearly 50 years in China, Xian Zumin, a member of ...