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.

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 ...

Modern-day lizards, snakes, frogs and mammals — including us — may owe their existence to a mass extinction of ancient fish 360 million years ago that left the oceans relatively barren, providing room ...

Moenkhausia is a group of "diverse" and "small-sized" characiform fish, or ray-finned fish. It is known for its size as well ...

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

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that ...

New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

At first glance, tube-eyes and cods seem nothing alike. The former, a ribbon-shaped, deep-sea fish, has bizarre tubular eyes that resemble goggles. The latter, one of the world’s most commercially ...

Tuna, opah, and billfishes such as marlins and swordfish are among the 0.1% of fish species that are warm-blooded. Evidence by an international team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

They are calling for expanded protections. Researchers make unsettling discovery after analyzing items for sale at public ...