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A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

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

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

Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognized pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that "of all ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch ...