Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, ...

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

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 ...

In 1890, Akeley made a diorama of a muskrat habitat, complete with a background mural. This was the world's first museum habitat diorama and the beginning of the “Milwaukee Style,” the revolutionary ...

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 metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of ...

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

The world’s largest scorpion, Gigantometrus swammerdami, can grow nearly nine inches long. Native to India, this ancient predator predates dinosaurs and is surprisingly mild-mannered.