I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

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 ...

A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

Examination of a set of Tharsis fossils has revealed to researchers a possible cause of death for some of these creatures. This shocking cause of death was swallowing belemnites (squid-like ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates that eventually moved onto land. By reanalyzing mysterious fossils from ...

Palaeontologists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology have made an enormous breakthrough, revolutionising what we know ...

CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on its skin (shown in orange). Credit: Yara Haridy CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on ...

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 ...