A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest known bony fish ever found, pushing back the timeline for when the ancestors ...

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 ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

Ancient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution. Fish fossils from a 62.2 million-year-old Egyptian site may be rewriting what we know about ...

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

Sanaa El-Sayed, University of Michigan doctoral student, senior student researcher at Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center and assistant lecturer at Mansoura University, is pictured with ...

If you're reading this sentence, you might have a fish to thank. Fish were the first animals to evolve jaws. They use their jaws primarily to eat, but also for defense, as tools—such as to burrow or ...

The evolution of lungs was crucial not only for vertebrates’ transition to land but potentially also for the survival of bony fish during the Late Devonian extinction 1,2,3. This event, characterized ...