A thrilling fossil discovery on England’s Jurassic Coast has revealed a brand-new species of prehistoric mammal, thanks to ...

But recent monitoring surveys of the species conducted by fisheries biologists from the California Department of Fish and ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

“It’s going to continue to be a tough year,” Stinson said. The department was forced to cut about $20 million, according to ...

Ecologists celebrated the release of thousands of palm-sized lake sturgeon into the Maumee River in 2018, kicking off an ...

Did you know that seagulls often swallow their prey whole? Here's how the bird uses its complex digestive system to its advantage.

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

Sturgeon are ancient fish that have been around for 201 million years, giving them the title of “modern fossils” quite easily. They usually live in freshwater, but some species feed in brackish ...

The large fish had lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its size. It had hooked teeth at the tip of its long jaw ... or actinopterygians (including everything from ...

It had hooked teeth at the tip of its long jaw that it would ... and the ray-finned fishes or actinopterygians (including everything from sturgeon to tuna). Only a few jawless fish round out the ...

In the watery world of fish evolution, feeding is everything. Success depends on catching food efficiently, whether it’s darting prey or algae stuck to rocks. A recent study published in the journal ...

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 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology .