A biologist's unusual “fish bunker” of preserved aquatic life shows how humanity has pushed some species to their doom.

Some animals once believed extinct have stunned scientists by reappearing decades, centuries, or even millions of years after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team traveled to South Africa's Umzimkhulu River in 2017 with a specific mission: find surviving pockets of the Maluti ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of scientists went ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A prehistoric visitor washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19. The fish, identified as a sturgeon, was first spotted by beach ...

A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet, a small oval-shaped fish with large eyes, was considered extinct in Victoria, Australia, in ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...