In an exciting first, an Australian team of scientists identified a new species of freshwater fish that swam in nearby waters over 15 million years ago, offering fresh insights into Australia’s ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

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 ...

Fossilized fish found in Australia are so well preserved that paleontologists can see what the creatures ate for their last meals roughly 15 million years ago. They described the fish—which belong to ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...