Animal world
'Living fossil' fish is pregnant for 5 years
Ancient 'slow-living' fish Coelacanth with lifespan of up to a century and gestation period of five years, new study finds.
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Animal world
'Living fossil' fish haven't evolved in 100 million years
Large gars can grow as large as crocodiles and have armor so tough it helped them survive predatory dinosaurs.
Animal world
Surprising creature that can 'interbreed across 100 million years of evolution'
Scientists have determined
Archeology
Discovered the world's oldest 244 million-year-old bony fish fossil in China
Paleontologists found three of the oldest known bony fish specimens in the Guanling Formation in Yunnan province, China.
Archeology
300 million years fossils of sturgeon fish
Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri has a sturgeon-like shape with a long protruding snout that focuses the senses to help them catch prey.
Archeology
The 380 million-year-old fossil of fish walking on land
The researchers discovered the fossils of a multi-finger finfish that lived on Earth in the late Devonian.
Archeology
The discovery of 200 million year old fossil fish in China
The team's findings help to reconstruct and make a complete evolutionary scheme of subspecies of whole bones.
Oceanography
Fish 'live fossils'
In 1938, a hand fin fish was found in African waters. Earlier, scientists believed that the fish had become extinct 65 million years ago with a prehistoric strain of pre…
Archeology
Colombian boy goes out, finds fossil 90 million years old
Rio Santiago Dolmetsch, 10 years old, is on a tour and explores the La Candelaria monastery in Colombia in 2015.
Archeology
Discovering fossil fish fossils 152 million years
Recently, Indian scientists discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of sea fish - an extinct marine reptile.
Archeology
Discover 200 million year old fossil with a belly filled with squid
Millions of years ago during the Jurassic period, there was a marine reptile named ichthyosaur that used to hunt prehistoric squid species.
Archeology
200 million year long sea fossil remains intact
This is the fossil of the largest fish lizard ever found, IFL Science reported on August 28.
Archeology
The evolutionary relationship between a fish fossil 400 million years old and humanity
This ancient fossil was excavated in a limestone study around Lake Burinjuck - about 50km northwest of Australia's Canberra capital.
Archeology
Sea dragon fossils dominate the Jurassic ocean
Fossil researchers in England found two new giant reptiles, dubbed
Archeology
New discovery: Hand fin ever had lungs
This is not the first time that finfish scoff at science. During the 19th century, this 2m long fish and 100kg weight were classified as extinct species.