One of the most dramatic chapters in vertebrate history is the moment some fish dared to venture onto land. Around 375 million years ago, certain lobe-finned fish, like the famous Tiktaalik ...

—The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, and they all have the same, unique mutations —This fish has 555 teeth … and it loses 20 every day —Likeness of Cambrian critter finally ...

At first glance, a fossil of a creature called Anatolepis looked like a vertebrate fish – and indeed, previous research from 1996 had identified it as one. Haridy and her colleagues noticed that ...

Fossils have been recovered in a number of strange and surprising places including museum drawers and deep in present day deserts.More than a century ago, a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish ...

A 319-million-year-old fossilised fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain, researchers say.

So Haridy turned to ancient vertebrate fish whose bumpy exoskeletons scientists believe evolved into our teeth. "As fish evolved a jaw and started to feed more like predators," she says, ...

At first glance, a fossil of a creature called Anatolepis looked like a vertebrate fish – and indeed, previous research from 1996 had identified it as one. Haridy and her colleagues noticed that ...

A. heintz was therefore an ancient invertebrate arthropod — not a vertebrate fish. Related: Scientists discover new 15 million-year old fish with last meal fossilized inside its stomach.