Museum-Drawer Fish Fossil Fills a 50-Million-Year Gap in Evolutionary Record
A fish specimen that sat unnoticed in a museum drawer for roughly 150 years has been re-examined and identified as a crucial fossil that helps close a 50-million-year gap in the evolutionary history of a major fish lineage. The finding underscores how climate and biodiversity research can still be advanced by overlooked collections, not only by new field expeditions.
