Researchers have linked the development of the human jaw to a 423-million-year-old armoured fish that skulked the bottom of the oceans. Paleontologists from China and Sweden said Thursday that our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another prehistoric visitor has washed ashore in Beaufort County, marking at least the third Atlantic sturgeon sighting in the ...

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

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A middle school science teacher walking the shore of Alabama’s Mobile Bay found a large, menacing looking fish carcass that counts as “a living dinosaur,” according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a new study. Dating from the Upper Devonian period 365 million years ago, the ...

There are plenty of contemporary creatures that inspire fear. For example, the northern green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world and weighs more than a football player. Should you encounter ...