A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest known bony fish ever found, pushing back the timeline for when the ancestors ...

A research team led by Profs. ZHU Min, LU Jing, and ZHU You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

New research sheds light on one of evolution's most important transitions—and a robot helped reveal the answer.

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.

Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

A newly published international study led by Egypt’s Mansoura University has uncovered one of the most significant fossil ...

The evolution of lungs was crucial not only for vertebrates’ transition to land but potentially also for the survival of bony fish during the Late Devonian extinction 1,2,3. This event, characterized ...

Sanaa El-Sayed, University of Michigan doctoral student, senior student researcher at Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center and assistant lecturer at Mansoura University, is pictured with ...