Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized fish digestive tracts are usually obscured by their scaly skin. But these carnivorous remains aren't complete specimens ...

A new fossil study by scientists challenges long-held ideas of fish evolution, revealing surprising insights into early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the diversity of 62.2-million-year-old fish found in the Qreiya 3 fossil site. The discovery tells of a ...

In a study appearing in Fossil Record, researchers Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert analyzed the remains of a unique fossil type: the decapitated head of Aspidorhynchus, with its gastrointestinal ...

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, including middle ear bones similar to those in humans. Two-thirds of all ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish ...

Learn how ancient DNA and chemical clues revealed that the American cheetah was a puma relative that ate fish in the Arctic.

Some extinct species left copious fossil remnants of their existence. Ammonites—an extinct type of cephalopod—are one such example. From the Devonian right up until the Paleocene, wherever ancient ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work—published today ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to hunters A fossil the size of a fingernail is rewriting the opening chapter ...

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