Flinders fossil hunter joins elite group of scientists
Digging deep for ancient life forms provides clues to climate change, the rise and fall of animal kingdoms and even civilisation collapse – while also paving […]
Ecosystem diversity drives origin of new shark and ray species
What drives the evolution of new species of sharks and rays? Traditionally, scientists thought it required species to be separated by geographic or spatial barriers, however […]
Commercial fishing threatens sharks worldwide
Even the remotest parts of the ocean appear to offer highly migratory sharks little refuge from industrialised fishing fleets, according to a major new international study […]
Primitive fish had more sense than we thought
CT scans of vertebrate fish fossils have found early signs of sophisticated electroreception systems, which paved the way for the amazing detection ability of sharks, lungfish […]