A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Despite just around 38 left scientists are hopeful these beautiful vibrant blue fish can be saved from extinction ...

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously thought to be a member of a genus called Australopithecus – but ...

It’s not just humans who suffer from leading one another astray. So do fish, flies and even bacteria. By Carl Zimmer Earlier this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian (‘fish-lizard’) Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (center). A school of the ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely ...