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

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 ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Scientists who famously discovered the lobe-finned fish fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a species with some of the clearest evidence of the evolutionary transition from fish to limbed animals, have described ...

Richard Cloutier receives funding from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and The Australian Research Council. Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) provides funding as a ...

A group of ancient fish, called coelacanths, have changed so little over time they are known as "living fossils." Now, the remains of a skull found in the Yunnan Province of China, confirms these ...

Q: What do we know about the environment in which the transition to land occurred? NS: Back in the Devonian, north central Pennsylvania was very different from today, where you now find a river valley ...

Here’s a breathtaking finding: Scientists say they’ve discovered an ancient vestigial lung in the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish that’s related to the ancient swimmer that went on to evolve into all ...

A creature that lived 375 million years ago and is thought to have been the first fish to have made the transition to land sported large pelvic bones in addition to its leg-like front fins, new ...