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 ...

A rare Antarctic fossil reveals how early fish lived and hunted just before animals began moving onto land 380 million years ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian desert. This extraordinary specimen, found in the renowned McGraths Flat ...

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 ...