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 ...

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

Jawless, bloodsucking fish could help us understand how humans and all other vertebrates evolved, scientists say. Turns out, lampreys — notable for their lack of jaw and generally terrifying ...

A 370-milion-year-old, primitive fish sported a weird pair of fins just below its anus, new research shows. The strange appendages, detailed today (April 9) in the journal Biology Letters, were found ...

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 ...

A lucky angler yanked a 5-foot-long fish out of east Tennessee’s Clinch River, but it’s not the size that drew the attention of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. It’s the age. State officials ...

Arkansas now has an official primitive fish, the alligator gar, thanks to 11-year-old Henry Foster. The bill, HB1640, was signed today, March 25. According to the GARkansas Twitter page, the official ...

ON THE RAINY RIVER – The heavy, braided line on David Whitescarver's fishing reel whizzed off the spool as if it were tied to an underwater missile. What had been a 20-minute standoff with a fish that ...

Christopher Begley caught this 30-year-old fish in Tennessee’s Clinch River using “cut suckers” on his line. Wildlife Sgt. Brent Harrison photo A lucky angler yanked a 5-foot-long fish out of east ...