The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE. The findings ...

Fish belong to three superclasses: bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). As the name suggests, bony fish have skeletons made of bone. They also ...

Critically endangered, this fish was sampled during fieldwork in 2017 and 2018 from an ancient forest in southeastern Kenya. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning “pertaining to the forest ...

Once again, sea creatures took the biggest hit. Theories point to rising and falling sea levels, climate change, or even asteroid impacts. One idea suggests that expanding plant life on land may ...

Researchers studied both modern and ancient fish to understand how these joints first appeared. They looked at jawed cartilaginous fishes, such as skates and bamboo sharks, and jawless fishes ...

Citation: “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish.” Neelima Sharma, Yara Haridy, Neil Shubin, PLOS Biology, Feb. 25, 2025. Funding: This work was ...

Fish sauce from the village has been recognized by Vietnam as an indelible part of the country's heritage and the younger Bui is acutely aware of what that means. “It isn’t just the quality of ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making ...