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. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...

Lobe-finned fishes once led the way in jaw innovation, reshaping evolution long before dinosaurs and life on land emerged.

Experts have uncovered the earliest known example of a fish with extra teeth deep inside its mouth—a 310-million-year-old ...

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have ...

University of Michigan study has shown that a now rare group of fish called lobe-finned fishes enjoyed an explosion of ...

An ancient, well-preserved fish brain analyzed recently by University of Michigan scientists could unlock new discoveries about evolution and the formation of fossils. The brain, which the university ...

A research team led by Prof. HE Shunping from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered through genome sequencing that the non-teleost ray-finned ...

A 310-million-year-old fossil fish reveals the earliest tongue bite, reshaping our understanding of feeding evolution.

Pheromones—chemicals produced by animals—are well-known for influencing the social and sexual behavior of members of the same species. These chemical signals convey vital information, such as gender ...