A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bottom-dwelling, mud-grubbing, armoured fish that swam in tropical seas 423 million years ago is fundamentally changing the understanding of the evolution of an indisputably ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...

The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

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 ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

Scientists in Australia have uncovered an exceptional fossil—a 15-million-year-old freshwater fish—that provides new insights into the prehistoric world. This rare discovery, led by a team from the ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work—published today ...