The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States have ...

The Atlantic sturgeon was driven to extinction in Europe by the middle of the 20th century. In Sweden’s Göta River, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A prehistoric fish that can grow up to 20 feet in length and is still found in the San Francisco Bay is seeing a steep decline in population across California, according to a ...

In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a prehistoric fish once believed to have gone extinct alongside the dinosaurs 65 ...

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