The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

A fossil found by a pair of hikers last year has turned out to be the skull of a huge new species of prehistoric fish that lived around 72 million years ago. The hikers came across the fossil in ...

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 ...

What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw. By Jack Tamisiea Some 375 million years ago, armored fishes ruled a watery ...

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 ...

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