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 ...

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

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

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

Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago - one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth - have been discovered in China, filling a ...

Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological possibilities.

Antarctic notothenioids represent a remarkable evolutionary radiation of fishes that have flourished in the extreme cold of the Southern Ocean. Their unique adaptations — including specialised ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

Fish exhibit considerable biodiversity in genetics, morphology and behaviour that has been shaped by environmental factors such as habitat variation, climate fluctuations, and geological events. By ...

A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California Davis, US, and colleagues report June 24 th in the open-access journal PLOS ...