Ancient armoured fish possessed sophisticated tooth replacement mechanisms more than 380 million years ago, Australian researchers have discovered using advanced imaging technology. The breakthrough ...

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniel Groß from ...

In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of a live Sulawesi coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). Long considered a ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding of prehistoric life. Leedsichthys problematicus, an enormous ...

Fish have been around since the dawn of complex animals. They were the first vertebrates, had the first live births and were the first four-limbed animals to venture onto land. The fossil fish ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep-sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural History Museum of Geneva (MHNG) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) reveals ...

Experts at the Seaside Aquarium identified the fish as a Longnose Lancetfish. It slightly resembles a Barracuda, and this is one fish you would not expect to stumble upon during your Oregon beach trip ...