New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known evidence of advanced, camera-like eyes in vertebrates. Dating back 443 ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event ...