Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert : ScienceAlert

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving.

Just a few years after uncovering a trove of exceptionally preserved fossils, paleontologists have now described a brand new fish species that lived and died during the Miocene, 15 million years ago.

So perfectly intact is this animal that a team of paleontologists led by Matthew McCurry of the Australian Museum Research Institute could…