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 ...

Here’s a breathtaking finding: Scientists say they’ve discovered an ancient vestigial lung in the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish that’s related to the ancient swimmer that went on to evolve into all ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

A group of ancient fish, called coelacanths, have changed so little over time they are known as "living fossils." Now, the remains of a skull found in the Yunnan Province of China, confirms these ...

Q: What do we know about the environment in which the transition to land occurred? NS: Back in the Devonian, north central Pennsylvania was very different from today, where you now find a river valley ...

In a newly published article in the scientific journal Nature (496, 311–316), scientists report a significant step in the understanding of the evolutionary process that led certain ancient fish to ...

A mass extinction of fish 360 million years ago hit the reset button on Earth’s life, setting the stage for modern vertebrate biodiversity. The mass extinction scrambled the species pool near the time ...

Lobe-finned fishes are a group of bony fishes. It's the structure in their fins -- particularly what we call paired fins, two in the front and two in the back -- that makes them unique and separates ...