A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought.

C. wildi lacks this hallmark feature of ray-finned fish, with the configuration of a part of its forebrain called the “telencephalon” more closely resembling that of other vertebrates, such as ...

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago. The fish is facing to the right, with the jaws visible in the lower right ...

Early ray-finned fishes like Coccocephalus can tell scientists about the initial evolutionary phases of today's most diverse fish group, which includes everything from trout to tuna, seahorses to ...

In comparison, most early ray-finned fish would have been around 10 inches. At that size, the fish could have been a top predator in this coastal lake, Lucas said. To this day, Harris says it's ...

Researchers found the coelacanth, known by some as the "dinosaur fish," in October 2024 off the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, where they captured the first images of an adult coelacanth in ...

UM paleontologists have scanned the brain of a 319-million-year-old fish to learn more about the early ray-finned fishes. Alabama puts Detroit man to death for 1991 murder.

Deep sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov shared a bizarre image of a crab he said looked just like Donald Trump - social media users broke out in hysterics and agreed with this take ...

C. wildi was an early ray-finned fish – possessing a backbone and fins supported by bony rods called “rays” – that is thought to have been 6 to 8 inches long, swum in an estuary, and ate ...