Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the ...

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...

Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect ...

If you look back far enough, humans evolved from fish. Anyone doubting this aspect of our ancestry must contend with a growing wealth of DNA evidence. Among the fish living today, we share a ...

A shadowy figure lurks beneath the blue ocean pixels in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your avatar throws out their fishing rod — hoping to snag the beast — but after a brief tug, it swims out of ...

The coelacanth was discovered in 1938, but scientists already knew what the organism looked like. It’s the lone representative of a lineage that we knew from fossils, the last of which were preserved ...

NEW YORK Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...