American scientists who announced one of the most significant fossil finds in the Arctic have set their sights on the North again, in hopes of finding more discoveries that could further bridge the gap between fish and land animal. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The oldest known fossils of jellyfish have been found in rocks in Utah that are more than 500 million years old. The fossils are an unusual discovery because soft-bodied creatures, such as jellyfish, rarely survive in the fossil record, unlike animals with hard shells or bones. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

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 ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now paleontologists have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. They... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Two reptile-like animals living 290 million years ago are the oldest creatures to have their footprints positively identified after a fortuitous discovery allowed scientists to match fossils to preserved trackways. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A tropical fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago, a new study shows. picked by Lilo 11 months ago

FishZilla or the snakehead is a native Chinese fish which has shark like teeth, a taste for blood and can walk on land.

Reports and media coverage have sparked this documentary which is soon to air.

Its has had a detrimental impact on local fish stocks and it has been known to even attack humans! picked by sharand 5 months ago

A new global portrait taken from space details Earth’s land cover with a resolution never before obtained. Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Brilliant (but obviously insane) Japanese chef created the Water Fryer, which is a fish bowl at the bottom of his deep fryer. Very cool concept!
updated link - now with video picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

Authorities found a rental truck filled with rotting fish, cow parts and pig organs. Four University of Arizona students had rented the truck and collected the smelly cargo intending to dump it on someone’s front lawn as a prank. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount of meat may actually increase this efficiency. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Australian scientists say the recent discovery of a fossil fish has rewritten the record of evolution of land mammals. picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago

For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 land mines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Land Mines in Africa picked by sbalaciu 1 year ago

Tiny they may be, but fossil diatoms discovered deep under the ocean floor are revealing new details about Antarctica's warmer past. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Eating your offspring may sound unthinkable, but animals from fish to birds are known to do it. Scientists have been unsure why such a behavior would have evolved, but a new study sheds light on the factors that may drive some parents to eat their young. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago