Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, ...

Meet the Sword Dragon of Dorset - a ichthyosaur fossil from the Pliensbachian Stage which holds clues to marine reptile evolution.

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

A 55-million-year-old predatory fish resurfaces after decades lost in notes and reveals ancient seas teeming with hunters.

"Nine jaws we've found have this twist, including the really well-preserved ones, so it's not a deformation." ...

Something unusual has slipped back into the dark, fast-moving waters of Sweden’s Göta River: a prehistoric “living fossil.”After more than a century of absence, a massive and ancient fish has begun ...

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

In a study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers Dr. Giovanna M. X. Paixão and her colleagues ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...