Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

The University of Wyoming Geological Museum will host the annual Fossil Fish Festival Saturday, April 20. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch ...

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Cloutier is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence in Basin Studies and Applied Palaeontology, Mahasarakham University (Thailand). He has received funding from the Natural ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...