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  1. michael @[email protected] ·

    26-Mar-2026
    Prehistoric #fish: #coelacanths heard underwater using their #lungs
    A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #evolution #hearing #fossils #anatomy

    #evolution #hearing #fossils #anatomy #fish #coelacanths
  2. Lukas VFN 🇪🇺 @[email protected] ·

    Coelacanths thrived after a mass extinction
    phys.org/news/2023-07-fossil-c

    Early #Mesozoic burst of morphological disparity in the slow-evolving #coelacanth fish lineage nature.com/articles/s41598-023

    "The biggest #MassExtinction of the last 500 million years occurred 252 million years ago... The #coelacanths, which lived about 10 million years after this disaster, demonstrate that they could still take advantage of the post-#extinction Earth environment to evolve into unique forms throughout their history"

    #extinction #coelacanths #massextinction #coelacanth #mesozoic