With razor sharp teeth, armor like scales, and a body that can grow longer than a person is tall, the alligator gar looks ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A giant prehistoric fish from an ancient supercontinent has been ...

Meet the coelacanth, the 400-million-year-old fish that could be the evolutionary link to the first land creatures. This living dinosaur has four limb-like fins that it uses to "trot" through the ...

Researchers studying lake sturgeon in Northwest Georgia's Coosa River have found evidence that the fish may be reproducing for the first time since they were wiped out in the 1970s. It can take 20 ...

The American paddlefish is a prehistoric-looking fish that can grow up to five feet long and weigh as much as 60 pounds. […] ...

A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature today (Sept. 20), researchers from ...

Living in Florida is never boring. It may be hot, but we get excited when a "cold front" is predicted that will drop temperatures into the 80s or, gasp, the 70s. And who knows, we might — emphasize ...

Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication the armored “living fossils” may be reproducing in that state for the ...

Sharp teeth and pointy snouts plaster the walls and bookshelves of Solomon David’s office at Nicholls State University, nested among the bayous of southern Louisiana. It’s like walking into a gar ...

A mass extinction of fish 360 million years ago hit the reset button on Earth’s life, setting the stage for modern vertebrate biodiversity. The mass extinction scrambled the species pool near the time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A prehistoric visitor washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19. The fish, identified as a sturgeon, was first spotted by beach ...