Jul 12, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

In the new research, paleontologists described and illustrated the endocasts (braincases) of six Paleozoic lungfish species from superb 3D fossil material,...

Jun 29, 2022 by Natali Anderson

A team of ichthyologists from the Kagoshima University and the Kagoshima University Museum has discovered a new species of the fish genus Pteragogus living...

Jun 28, 2022 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has sequenced the genomes of two living seadragon...

May 26, 2022 by News Staff

Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived 390 million years ago, is one of the most enigmatic fossil vertebrates, and its...

May 17, 2022 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Federal University of Rondônia and the Federal University of Bahia has...

Apr 1, 2022 by News Staff

In a new study, researchers at the University of Bonn’s Institute of Zoology examined the numerical understanding of cichlids and stingrays regarding...

Mar 28, 2022 by News Staff

New research published in the American Museum Novitates is the first to document biofluorescence in Arctic fishes. A juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis...

Mar 11, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of the fish genus Cirrhilabrus living in the waters off Maldives and Sri Lanka. The rose-veiled...

Feb 6, 2022 by News Staff

Otodus megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived on Earth, most certainly reached at least 15 m (50 feet) in total length based on its gigantic teeth....

Jan 28, 2022 by News Staff

New research led by Cornell University scientists shows that sound production appeared in the ray-finned fishes (clade Actinopterygii) circa 155 million...

Jan 17, 2022 by Natali Anderson

A vast breeding colony of a fish species called the Jonah’s icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah) has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The...

Dec 16, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A deep-sea fish species called the barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) has been observed with MBARI’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Ventana in Monterey...

Dec 14, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have used high-resolution micro-CT and synchrotron tomography to scan two well-preserved 3D specimens of the tetrapodomorph fish Cladarosymblema...

Dec 10, 2021 by News Staff

About 66 million years ago, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact unleashed...

Nov 16, 2021 by Sergio Prostak

The fossils are estimated to be around 96 million years old and belong to the first Cretaceous mawsoniid coelacanth from North America. Reconstruction...

Nov 16, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and elsewhere has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 88 Pacific Ocean rockfish species...

Nov 1, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleoichthyologists in China have re-described Nochelaspis maeandrine, a species of large-sized eugaleaspiform fish that lived 415 million years ago (Devonian...

Oct 22, 2021 by News Staff

Two new species — the small skink Sciroseps pawhuskai and the pycnodontiform fish Anomoeodus caddoi — that lived during the Early Cretaceous...

Sep 3, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have uncovered seven well-preserved teeth from the extinct shark genus Petalodus in Shanxi province, China. Life restoration of Petalodus...

Aug 31, 2021 by News Staff

The bowfin (Amia calva) is a species of ray-finned fish native to North America. Also known as freshwater dogfish, grinnel, and mud pike, this species...