After almost 40 years of absence from Ireland's waters, the caviar sturgeon has made a sudden reappearance, the Irish Post reported. Declan O'Sullivan, skipper of the Portmagee trawler the Trinity, ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

Some animals once believed extinct have stunned scientists by reappearing decades, centuries, or even millions of years after vanishing from the fossil record or disappearing from human observation.

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time. But in some rare cases, animals believed to be lost for good have ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

A remarkable find in 1938 stunned scientists. A fish, believed extinct for millions of years, was caught off South Africa.

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...

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Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...