You might take it for granted now, but your jaw is the result of an evolutionary journey lasting over 400 million years. This claim comes from a new study, which found the iconic feature that helps us ...

A newly discovered fossil "treasure hoard" dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first jawed ...

Osteichthyans (bony fishes and tetrapods) have the maxillary, premaxillary, and dentary bones, all with facial laminae, whereas placoderms (jawed stem gnathostomes) have supposedly non-homologous ...

A freaky fish with a head like a dolphin and a body like a tank may be to thank for human jaws. The discovery of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern ...

Measuring just 12 inches in length, the Qilinyu Rostrata, which lived more than 400 million years ago, was no apex predator. Belonging to the now-extinct armored fish group called placoderms, it was ...

Scientists estimate more than 99 per cent of all species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils. Fossils are ancient organisms’ ...

Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, palaeontologists from China and Sweden trace our jaws back to the ...

A newly discovered fish fossil is the earliest known creature with what might be recognized as a face. Entelognathus primordialis was an ancient fish that lived about 419 million years ago in the Late ...

Scientists say they have discovered a fossil of the oldest known vertebrate animal with a jaw -- a strange chimera of a fish that could unseat the shark as a representative of extremely “primitive” ...