Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it’s because about 50 million years ago, some ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...

Antarctic fish fossils are shedding light on early animal evolution, specifically the transition to land. A remarkably ...

Fossils over 300 million years old reveal the evolution of a tongue bite in an ancient group of deep-bodied ray-finned fishes, such as Platysomus parvulus. Experts have uncovered the earliest known ...

A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals the surprising neurological landscape of fish brains. Harvard ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...