Ancient fish once roamed the waters with features that preceded human elbows and knees. Scientists have revealed that our flexible joints can be traced to the earliest jawed fish, bridging the distant ...

The petroglyphs can be found on volcanic tuff formations formed over 760,000 years ago when a large eruption released hot ash ...

A new study published in PLOS Biology reveals that the origins of this movement can be traced back to ancient jawed fish, reshaping our understanding of how skeletal structures evolved.

It’s hard to mistake this ancient fish for anything else. Cross a catfish, a shark, a stegosaurus, and a pruning saw, and you’re not far from imagining a sturgeon. For 162 million years ...

Ancient petroglyphs carved into volcanic rock ... panels in the 36,000-acre Volcanic Tablelands in Owens Valley. The carvings depict bighorn sheep, bisected circles and at one site, a miner ...

They analyzed little skates and bamboo sharks (cartilaginous fish), sea lampreys and hagfish (jawless fish), and even examined fossils of ancient armored fish. Using advanced scanning techniques, they ...

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The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a study published in the open ...

Fish are doubtlessly feeling about now whatever fish feel when the urge to spawn kicks in. In but a little while – if not today or yesterday – female and male will be heeding an ancient ...

Described online in the journal Nature, the fossil fish, Janusiscus schultzei, could help researchers flesh out portions of the ancient fish family tree.

Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding individuals who desecrated ancient, protected tribal rock carvings near Bishop, California. The petroglyphs at Volcanic Tableland were ...