In the Arusha region of Tanzania, migrating elephants trample farmland and farmers’ livelihoods. A beehive fence has proved ...

Here's a primitive fish trap video to start the new season. It was a long wet winter but spring has finally arrived here and the fish are active. See what else I also find along the way in this ...

"Even though acanthothoracids are among the most primitive of all jawed vertebrates, their teeth are in some ways far more like modern ones than arthrodire dentitions. Their jawbones resemble those of ...

The earliest "babies" known to science have been uncovered in the remains of a primitive fish found in Orkney. Researchers say the unborn embryos discovered in a fossil from the island of South ...

Hubert told the Asbury Park Press he frequently comes to New Jersey to fish the freshwater for bowfin, which is considered a "living fossil," because it belongs to a primitive family of fish and ...

With a torpedo-like body, they were fast swimmers, relying on speed to hunt primitive fish and other marine creatures. Sharks’ defining feature, their cartilaginous skeletons, was one of the key ...

Bearing a resemblance to their scorpion descendents, eurypterids had a pair of huge, compound eyes for searching out primitive fish, which they grabbed with their powerful, clawlike pincers.

Fish appear in the fossil record before four-legged animals (tetrapods), so the ancestor of this group must be at least as primitive as a fish. The most ancient fish were jawless, and since our ...

Scans of the Gogo fish fossil showed that its heart was more complex than expected for these primitive fish. It had two chambers one on top of each other, similar in structure to the human heart.