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John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University

A kung-fu kick led researchers to the world's oldest complete fish fossils – here's what they found

Heming Zhang, Author provided

Some of the world’s most significant fossil discoveries have come from China. These include amazing feathered dinosaurs, the earliest modern mammals, and some of the oldest-known animals on Earth.

Today, four new papers published in Nature carry on this tradition by revealing the world’s oldest well-preserved jawed fishes, dating between 436 million and 439 million years ago to the start of the Silurian period.

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