Another rare and prehistoric fish washed ashore on Fripp Island in Beaufort County this week. Here’s what we know.

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of a live Sulawesi coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). Long considered a ...

Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps were used ...

A prehistoric visitor, a sturgeon fish, washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19, baffling beach goers around Islanders Beach Club. Photographed by John Billings, vacationer from Tennessee. Courtesy of ...

An angler recently reeled in an “incredibly rare” and prehistoric fish while fishing in Kansas, according to state wildlife officials. Kevin Zirjacks was casting his line in the Kansas River when he ...

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish While the discovery of Acronichthys introduces a new species to paleontological records, it also provides critical data to trace the origins of otophysans, as ...

Experts at the Seaside Aquarium identified the fish as a Longnose Lancetfish. It slightly resembles a Barracuda, and this is one fish you would not expect to stumble upon during your Oregon beach trip ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it — fertilization of eggs inside a female — took place as much as 30 million years earlier than ...