A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

Scottish fossil fish, Megalichthys pygmaeus, reveals new details about the skull and provides clues about species from a coal ...

Antarctic fish fossils are shedding light on early animal evolution, specifically the transition to land. A remarkably ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...

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A new study shows that fish brains often do not fill their skulls. This changes how scientists study brain evolution and ...

BEIJING, 6 March (BelTA - Xinhua) - Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago - one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth - have ...