A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Close observations and studies have shown that many frogs use their eyeballs to help push food down their throat!

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified ...

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

In a groundbreaking find, researchers have discovered traces of ancient microbes in an unexpected location. This stunning revelation could change how we understand the origins of life on Earth. The ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.