If you're reading this sentence, you might have a fish to thank. Fish were the first animals to evolve jaws. They use their jaws primarily to eat, but also for defense, as tools—such as to burrow or ...

Hugo Dutel is in the Bristol Palaeobiology Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK, and in the Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, UK. Ray-finned ...

A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake Malawi is helping researchers refine our understanding of how evolution works. A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa's Lake ...

An ancient, well-preserved fish brain analyzed recently by University of Michigan scientists could unlock new discoveries about evolution and the formation of fossils. The brain, which the university ...

Fossils over 300 million years old reveal the evolution of a tongue bite in an ancient group of deep-bodied ray-finned fishes, such as Platysomus parvulus. Experts have uncovered the earliest known ...

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In a paper published in Nature Genetics, scientists reveal the genome assembly of the bowfin (Amia calva)—a bony fish endemic to eastern North America that is the sole surviving member of a once large ...

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 ...

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Quick Take A 436-million-year-old bony fish fossil has successfully helped researchers better understand vertebrate evolution. Before this discovery, the scarcity of Silurian fossil records created a ...