I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

What a 430-million-year fossil really shows The new fossil sits at roughly 430 million years old, which places it in the Silurian period, long before dinosaurs, flowering plants or even the first ...

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 ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

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 ...

Two newly discovered, spiky creatures from the Silurian period—nicknamed Punk and Emo—are helping scientists reveal the early history of mollusks. Mark Sutton, Imperial College London. Altered into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite everything I learned, I still had questions: What did fish look like before the ray-finned and lobe-finned split? Were ...