The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors. Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study ...

A new study has revealed that teeth, as we know them today, didn’t evolve for chewing or biting, but for sensing the environment around ancient fish. This discovery pushes the timeline of vertebrate ...

Another rare and prehistoric fish washed ashore on Fripp Island in Beaufort County this week. Here’s what we know.

This man set out to expand his backyard ponds and ended up with one of the rarest prehistoric fish in the world. At a local fish store, he discovered an entire pond filled with paddlefish—ancient ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along ...

Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water?A ...

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