Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...

The extinction of dinosaurs paved the way for ray-finned fish species, researchers claim. Pictured: an animatronic model of a Tyrannosaurus from the "Walking with Dinosaurs" show in Sydney, Jan. 10, ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. HE Shunping from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered through genome sequencing that the non-teleost ray-finned ...

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. The ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The world’s oldest brain is located in Ann Arbor, and it belonged to a fish from 319 million years ago. A University of Michigan-led study published Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the British ...

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What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, for a long time considered a key to the distant past, is now in the middle ...

The study author says that's important as having a good understanding of species on earth is critical to conservation efforts ...

Venom and its associated delivery systems have evolved in numerous animal groups ranging from jellyfishes to spiders, lizards, shrews, and the male platypus. Building off new data and previously ...

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