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news, san francisco. have a look at this. researchers have discovered the world s oldest heart. the 380 million year old fossil was discovered in western australia, in the gogo fish, which is one of our earliest evolutionary ancestors. the fossil captures a key moment in evolution that led to the emergence of the heart and other organs in the human body. here s our science correspondent pallab ghosh. this rock contains a heart that s hundreds of millions of years old. it s from a prehistoric creature that lived long before the first dinosaurs walked the earth the gogo fish. it s the animal humans evolved from. we were all crowded around the computer and recognised that we had a heart and pretty much couldn t believe it, and then decided that it was incredibly exciting. this is a crucial moment in our own evolution and it shows that the body plan that we have evolved very early on, and we see this for the first time. the fossil was discovered more than ten years ago in the k ....
Evolved very early on, and we see this for the first time. the fossil was discovered more than ten years ago in the kimberley region of western australia. in footage shot by the scientists, they record how they found the gogo fish fossils inside the small boulders scattered all across the region that was once a reef, teeming with life. we ve got a lowerjaw there, a beautiful series of rays, operculum, skull roof preserved up here, and beautiful articulated scales right down to the beginning of the tail. these are some of the rocks from australia that the fish were found in. the scientists cracked them open to see what was inside. you can see a tiny specimen inside this one. crucially, when the rocks were forming, they contained minerals that preserved their organs such as their liver, their stomach and most ....