Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

Ancient fish-trapping network supported the rise of Maya civilization The Maya were landscape engineers on a grand scale, even when it came to fishing. Kiona N. Smith – Nov 22, 2024 1:40 pm | 51 ...

Armored jawless fish like Astraspis and Eriptychius and ancient arthropods like Anatolepis coexisted in the muddy shallow seas of the Ordovician period, which occurred between 485.4 million and ...

During a diving expedition in the Nile River, archaeologists in Egypt discovered rock carvings featuring depictions of several ancient Egyptian pharaohs, along with hieroglyphic inscriptions. A ...

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans. The fish’s ribbonlike body, known ...

An ancient fish is in danger, but research could salvage its future. Our study used archaeology, history and ecology to describe the decline of Atlantic sturgeon. March 18, 2025. 6 min.

The carvings recently deciphered at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey suggest the monument could also represent the world's oldest solar calendar, according to new research.

Imagine a world where the boundaries between “fish” and “not-fish” blur, where the ancestors of birds and mammals once swam in ancient oceans, and where the line between what we call a ...

Related: 13 treasures the ancient Egyptians buried with their dead, and what they mean The recently found depictions of pharaohs include those of Amenhotep III (reigned circa 1390 to 1352 B.C ...

Maya villagers reaped the fish-trap system’s aquatic bounty from around 3,200 to 1,800 years ago, the researchers say. One excavated channel ran straight to a major Maya center, Chau Hiix.