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 ...

A rare Antarctic fossil reveals how early fish lived and hunted just before animals began moving onto land 380 million years ...

Antarctic fish fossils are shedding light on early animal evolution, specifically the transition to land. A remarkably ...

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 ...

Scottish fossil fish, Megalichthys pygmaeus, reveals new details about the skull and provides clues about species from a coal ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.

On Sunday, Jan. 11, Fripp Island resident Pete Sload was taking an afternoon walk along the beach when he discovered this sturgeon fish washed up on the shoreline. Courtesy of Pete Sload and Terri ...

A prehistoric visitor, a sturgeon fish, washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19, baffling beach goers around Islanders Beach Club. Photographed by John Billings, vacationer from Tennessee. Courtesy of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) – A fish considered a living fossil washed ashore in Mobile Bay this weekend. “When I was coming back from the pier, I noticed something in the water. It was large and ...