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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography , 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.028 Cite This Page : ...