Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the Devonian period fish, Dunkleosteus, preying on eurypterids (sea scorpions), which in turn were feeding on ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dunkleosteus ruled a restless Devonian ocean, where armor met innovation. Here’s how modern science is rewriting the story of this ...

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

About 375 million years ago, armored fishes ruled a watery world. Known as placoderms, these jawed vertebrates came in all shapes and sizes, from small bottom-dwellers to giant filter-feeders. Some, ...

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 ...

I first read Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...