A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

The fish could move on land like a seal and had 'a fin that can do push-ups,' researchers say. NEW YORK -- Researchers have found a fossil fish with a crocodile-like head that apparently moved on land ...

PHILADELPHIA — The recent discovery above the Arctic Circle of remarkably well preserved fossils from a new species of ancient fish provides a key marker in the evolutionary transition of fish to ...

Scientists on Wednesday reported discovering an evolutionary ‘‘missing link’’ between fish and land animals — an ancient, river-dwelling predator with arm joints in its fins, an alligator-like head ...

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 ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) 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 ...

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 ...

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