Around 400 million years ago, during a geological era often celebrated by paleontologists as the "Age of Fishes," the global ...

Fish have been around since the dawn of complex animals. They were the first vertebrates, had the first live births and were the first four-limbed animals to venture onto land. The fossil fish ...

Most fish on Earth today are ray-finned fishes: minnows, anchovies, catfish, bluefish, groupers, flatfish, bonitos, you name ...

In the ancient seas of the late Devonian period, approximately 382-358 million years ago, swam one of the most fearsome predators ever to inhabit Earth’s oceans. Dunkleosteus, an enormous armored fish ...

High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.

On this day in 2017: A rare fossil of a Placoderm, an armor-plated fish, was found in Alpena, Michigan, exciting paleontologists at the University of Michigan. On this day in 1921: Walker Smith Jr., ...

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Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there’s a hidden ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...