Last night (5th June) I watched Catalyst on the ABC. There was an excellent piece on John Long's wonderful discovery of embryonic development of Devonian Placoderms. These are a fossil fish group, long extinct, that have been shown to have embryos complete with umbilical cords. The fossil is Materpiscis (‘mother-fish’ in Latin) attenboroughi and Sir David is understandably very pleased with this honour. This fabulous discovery is part of the Gogo deposit in the Kimberly and was recently published in Nature. If you want to read more I highly recommend John's book Swimming in stone: the amazing Gogo fossils of the Kimberley. Fremantle: 2006.
Andrew Isles
Friday, June 6, 2008
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