New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...
When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...
(CNN) — Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by plates made of cartilage. Scientists are still ...
The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago.Jeremy Marble/University of Michigan News Scientists discovered the fossilized brain ...
A fossil found in 1971 has been re-identified as the earliest known animal built to walk on land, a salamander-like creature that marked a previously unknown stage in the evolution of fish into the ...
An event that seemed to condemn marine life 445 million years ago actually played a decisive role in the rise of the animals ...
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