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

Picture this: you’re gazing into a vibrant aquarium, entranced by the hypnotic dance of fish. But what if I told you that ...

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 ...

The small fish is Coccocephalus wildi, a type of ray-finned fish. Living examples of ray-finned fish include swordfish and trout. It's a diverse group made up of about 30,000 species.

For example, all living ray-finned fishes have an everted brain, meaning that the brains of embryonic fish develop by folding tissues from the inside of the embryo outward, like a sock turned ...

This was an early ray-finned fish that likely ate small crustaceans, cephalopods, and aquatic insects while swimming around estuaries. Backbones and fins supported by bony rods called rays are a ...

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

This fish fossil preserved at University of Michigan is 319 millions years old and shows the earliest example of a vertebrate ... of Coccocephalus folds inward unlike current ray-finned fish, ...

Ray-finned fishes have backbones and fins supported by bony rods called rays. While soft tissues such as the brain normally decay quickly and very rarely fossilise, when this fish died, the brain ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of ancient fish with hooked front fangs that made them a fearsome and effective ...

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 ...