Day: April 22, 2026
Apr
22
150-Year-Old Museum Specimen Reveals Missing Link in Ancient Fish Evolution
A groundbreaking discovery by palaeontology researchers has identified a new species of coelacanth from a 150-year-old fossil, filling a crucial 50-million-year gap in the evolutionary history of these iconic ‘living fossil’ fish. The fossil, housed at London’s Natural History Museum since the 19th century, has been named Macropoma gombessae and provides unprecedented insights into how […]
