Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

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Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, ...

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

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

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 ...

Alexis Chappuis and UNSEEN Expeditions took the images of a rare living coelacanth in Indonesia Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from ...

The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...