The armor-studded skeleton of a demonic-looking fish glows red under fluorescent light, in an unsettling photo recently shared on Twitter.

After the discovery of Tiktaalik, the fossil was moved to Philadelphia to be studied at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Daeschler and his team published about a half-dozen academic papers on the ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago.

Where the skeleton ends, speculation begins. Sometimes it helps to refer to modern descendants. Some artists give the Dunkleosteus a sharklike dorsal fin, for example, even though no one knows for ...

Now, a new fossilized fish skeleton found in China is older than the next-oldest specimen by a whopping 15 million years and is the, “oldest undisputed jawed fish.” ...

Kolmann told Live Science that while the fish is 'really weird' for many reasons, his research team focused on the skeleton because they're interested in the way that bony armor evolved in fish ...

The National Museum of Natural History has opened its newest temporary exhibition “X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out.” It features the X-ray images Smithsonian scientists use to better understand Earth’s ...

LONDON – Britain's Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species in an environment under ...