Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

Fossils of a new species of carnivorous fish that lurked ancient rivers have been discovered in the Canadian Arctic as per a new study. It was the research scientists at Academy of Natural Sciences in ...

“We call it a ‘fish-eat-fish world,’ an ecosystem where you really needed to escape predation,” said Dr. Ted Daeschler, describing life in the Devonian period in what is now far-northern Canada.

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

The Galeaspida is a clade of armored jawless vertebrates. Most galeaspids have a strongly flattened head-shield, dorsally set eyes, and a ventral mouth, indicating a benthic lifestyle moving on sandy ...

Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have described ...

In the long stretch of geological time, Cleveland once sat under a shallow inland sea rather than the grid of roads and ...

This video explores the fascinating story of Dunkleosteus, one of the first true apex predators to dominate Earth’s ancient ...

New findings on the brain and inner ear cavity of a 400-million-year-old platypus-like fish cast light on the evolution of modern jawed vertebrates, according to a study led by Dr. ZHU Youan and Dr.

On an expedition to Greenland in 1987, this University of Cambridge paleontologist unearthed remains of a creature from the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) that skulked around swamps on ...

NOVA: What exactly is a tetrapod? Clack: A tetrapod is an animal with four legs—you, me—or an animal whose ancestors had four legs. So I can talk about a frog, which jumps; a bird, which flies; a ...