Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

About 1867, Jay Terrell was walking along the Lake Erie shore in Sheffield Lake when he noticed what appeared to be fossils in the shale cliffs above him that lined the lakeshore. They proved to be ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 ...

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 ...

Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...

A big fish story? Maybe so: The greatest sea monster of the Devonian Period (Dunkleosteus terrelli) may be getting downsized. A new article contents that the famous sea monster of the Age of Fishes ...

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals—dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous Wintonotitan, and other large sauropods. However, ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

A giant species of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, new to science, has been described in a study published in PLOS ONE. The lobe-finned fish, about three-metres long, referred to as ‘one who eats others ...