Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...
These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...
The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors. Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study ...
A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the environment around ancient fish. This discovery pushes the timeline of vertebrate ...
Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...
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Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water?A ...