New 210-million-year-old lungfish species lived when dinosaurs were just getting started

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A fossil hunter has been honored with the most coveted of rewards among nature enthusiasts: getting a shiny new-to-science species in his name. Steve Edwards is also a safari guide in northern Zimbabwe, where he found a fossil of a curious fish that lived when the dinosaurs were just getting started around 210 million years ago.

The fossil is of a new species and has been named Ferganoceratodus edwardsi to commemorate the efforts of Edwards, who also has a phytosaur and a new dinosaur in his fossil finds portfolio. It’s a type of lungfish, a group of animals that has endured for 420 million years – you can still see them alive today.

https://www.iflscience.com/new-210-million-year-old-lungfish-species-lived-when-dinosaurs-were-just-getting-started-75480

The study is published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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