An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The world’s oldest brain is located in Ann Arbor, and it belonged to a fish from 319 million years ago. A University of Michigan-led study published Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the British ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

Some extinct species left copious fossil remnants of their existence. Ammonites—an extinct type of cephalopod—are one such example. From the Devonian right up until the Paleocene, wherever ancient ...

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 new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

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 ...

Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...