What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a ...

At the bottom of the vat, researchers uncovered small, fragmented fish bones – mostly vertebrae – that were remarkably well-preserved. They were 1,800 years old and heavily processed during ...

Sharks were an important prehistoric resource in the Southeast. They were a source of food, tools, and possibly shagreen. This paper is intended to assist in the identification of shark vertebrae, the ...

1. In snakes body size and vertebral number vary considerably among species. To investigate whether the two traits are correlated, and similar to a pattern found in fish and termed pleomerism, data ...