A four-foot-wide slab of Wyoming stone holdshundreds of tiny fish that died together roughly 50 million years ago. The ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to hunters A fossil the size of a fingernail is rewriting the opening chapter ...

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 ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite everything I learned, I still had questions: What did fish look like before the ray-finned and lobe-finned split? Were ...

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 ...

In a study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Steve Etches published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the osteology and systematic position of a new species of fossil fish, Brachyichthys ...

A 410-million-year-old armored fish from Yunnan, China, pushes back the fossil record of euantiarchs by 10 million years and ...

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 ...