An international team of scientists has described a rare fossil site that is believed to be among the earliest evidence of different fish species using a common nursery — much like ones utilized by ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it — fertilization of eggs inside a female — took place as much as 30 million years earlier than ...

Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, palaeontologists from China and Sweden trace our jaws back to the ...

The placoderms were a diverse group of ancient armoured fishes and it’s widely believed that they are ancestral to virtually all vertebrates alive today, including humans. Placoderms dominated aquatic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bottom-dwelling, mud-grubbing, armoured fish that swam in tropical seas 423 million years ago is fundamentally changing the understanding of the evolution of an indisputably ...

The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it — fertilization of eggs inside a female — took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, ...

A new fossil fish (Qilinyu rostrata) found in Yunnan, China, has filled in a gaping hole in how researchers thought the vertebrate jaw evolved. The 423 million years old specimen — part of an ancient ...

New findings on the brain and inner ear cavity of a 400-million-year-old platypus-like fish cast light on the evolution of modern jawed vertebrates, according to a study led by Dr. ZHU Youan and Dr.

A 410-million-year-old fossil of an armored fish has completely changed the history of sharks, according to a newly published study. The fish, known as Minjinia turgenensis, had a skeleton made of ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - February 25, 2009 Scientists from Australia and Britain studying 380 million-year-old fossils of the armored placoderm fish, or Incisoscutum richiei, said they were initially ...

Benedict King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council Mike Lee receives funding from the Australian Research Council ...