The Euphanerops sported bizarre fins below its anus, revealing some of the odd turns evolution took on the path to vertebrate evolution A 370-milion-year-old, primitive fish sported a weird pair of ...

The genes and nerve cells that allow people and other mammals to walk around can also be found in a primitive fish known as a skate, according to a study. The findings suggest that the nerve cells ...

People traditionally think that lungs and limbs are key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was ...

Genetic instructions for developing limbs and digits were present in primitive fish millions of years before their descendants first crawled on to land, researchers report. The successful swap ...

Teeth grew from the scales of primitive shark-like fish, new evidence has shown. The study found similarities between teeth and small, fang-like scales found on modern cartilaginous fish such as ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Primitive fish once believed to have died out long before the demise of the dinosaurs have for the first time been photographed and filmed in their deep ocean habitat. The strange movements of these ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ...

It has been long assumed that sharks are one of the more primitive forms of fish. But new analysis of a 415 million-year-old fossilised fish has shed doubt on the idea that sharks are the primitive ...

Teeth and hard structures called dermal odontodes are evolutionarily related, arising from the same developmental system, a new study shows. Teeth and hard structures called dermal odontodes are ...

Latest scientific findings prove that the jawless Haikou fish, also known by the scientific name of haikouichthy, may be the ancestor of humans and all modern vertebrates. Samples of the fossilized ...

Fossils, including a huge primitive fish, dating back to 100 million years found in Queensland provide an insight into Australia's ancient inland sea. The skull of a Cooyoo fossil, dating back to 100 ...