The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 67-million-year-old fish fossil preserved rare middle ear bones that amplify sound. New analyses suggest otophysan fish evolved ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...