Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding ...

Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A CT scan of the tooth-like odontode structure from Astrapsis, an ancient jawless vertebrate fish shows that its tubules (shown in ...

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known from two ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.

MADISON, Wis. - Lake sturgeon don't need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, April 22 saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return ...

Coral reefs are undoubtedly in crisis. Scientists have documented concerning coral bleaching events, dramatic declines in coral cover, fish and shark populations across the Caribbean over recent ...

Caribbean reef food webs have compressed by up to 70% over the past 7,000 years as fish diets converge and ecosystems become ...

The clock is ticking for anglers eager to catch one of Michigan’s most ancient fish in Black Lake. On February 7, 2026, the famed lake sturgeon fishing season begins, but there’s a catch: the season ...

Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water?A ...