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

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

Two giant oarfish, rarely seen deep-sea creatures sometimes called “doomsday fish,” were spotted near the shore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in an extremely rare sighting.

These fish typically weight between 545 and 2,205 pounds. Sunfish is closely related to the Pufferfish despite their size difference. The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding ...

A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The giant sunfish, weighing a little more than 3 tons, was ...

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...

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