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Professor Kate Trinajstic examines ancient fossils at the Western Australian Museum that were collected from the Gogo Formation. Inset: The 3D preserved Go | Earth And The Environment
Scientists from Curtin University in Australia have found the well-preserved heart and organs of a fish that lived 380 million years ago. It is now on record that the oldest heart in the world was found in a fossilized prehistoric fish that belonged to the arthrodites class – the fish existed 419.2 million and 358.9 million