Jan. 18—ALBUQUERQUE — A new species and genus of a toothy prehistoric fish has been discovered in Socorro County. A paper, published in "Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. ‘Lungfish’ would have been a common sight in the Devonian ...

At first glance, tube-eyes and cods seem nothing alike. The former, a ribbon-shaped, deep-sea fish, has bizarre tubular eyes that resemble goggles. The latter, one of the world’s most commercially ...

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 June 24 th in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Fossils over 300 million years old reveal the evolution of a tongue bite in an ancient group of deep-bodied ray-finned fishes, such as Platysomus parvulus. Experts have uncovered the earliest known ...

My dad was always good at pointing them out whenever we visited the beach, or a lake, or just passed by a stream on a hike. He’d look into the water and say, “Do you see it? The trout!” I would gaze ...

A ray-finned fish of the Carangidae family is seen with a tube anemone larva. Linda Ianniello Against the blackness of water at night, the pomfret looked like it had blown a big bubble from gum.