Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding of prehistoric life. Leedsichthys problematicus, an enormous ...

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras, which today ...

North America's largest freshwater fish, in fact — could find its way into a couple of small Utah lakes. The Utah Department ...

A rare fish more commonly spotted in prehistoric times has been sighted off the British coast for the first time in two decades. Diver Charles Hood was swimming amongst blue sharks when he found ...

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 ...

A prehistoric visitor, a sturgeon fish, washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19, baffling beach goers around Islanders Beach Club. Photographed by John Billings, vacationer from Tennessee. Courtesy of ...

A middle school science teacher walking the shore of Alabama’s Mobile Bay found a large, menacing looking fish carcass that counts as “a living dinosaur,” according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

On Sunday, Jan. 11, Fripp Island resident Pete Sload was taking an afternoon walk along the beach when he discovered this sturgeon fish washed up on the shoreline. Courtesy of Pete Sload and Terri ...