Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

Afossil fish discovered on Pitt Island nearly 30 years ago has finally been fully identified thanks to a surprising source: ...

Paleontologists in Egypt have stumbled upon an extraordinary fossil haul: nearly 500 fish frozen in time. The site, called ...

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 extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

One fossil proved especially remarkable: an early relative of seahorses and pipefishes preserved with its body armor still ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...

Modern walking fish share the same simple gait, offering new clues about how ancient vertebrates first moved from water onto ...

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