Long before dinosaurs appeared on Earth, fierce predatory fish developed crushing jaws and sharp teeth to survive and ...

Ancient placoderms evolved different jaw designs for crushing or breaking hard prey, depending partly on predator-prey size ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Scientists have discovered how ancient armoured fish used surprisingly different jaws to hunt and crush prey more than 400 ...

The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to hunters A fossil the size of a fingernail is rewriting the opening chapter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the diversity of 62.2-million-year-old fish found in the Qreiya 3 fossil site. The discovery tells of a ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Learn how ancient DNA and chemical clues revealed that the American cheetah was a puma relative that ate fish in the Arctic.

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story thanks to an unexpected discovery: the original collector’s long-lost ...

When we look at the world around us, we see a wonderous variety of living things—with fins, fronds or feet, living in the deepest ocean or the driest deserts, eating seeds or salmon or sunlight. The ...