A “demon-toothed” sea creature with “large, well-spaced fangs” has been identified as a new species after a researcher found a fossilized partial skull in the New Mexico desert, officials said. The ...

Daemodontiscus, or demon-toothed fish, earned its name from its famous fangs. But the teeth, along with some other features, made Harris' find unusual. In comparison, most early ray-finned fish ...

Bichir are bottom-dwelling freshwater fish native to western Africa. They are among the most primitive of the ray-finned fish, the dominant group of modern fish, which arose about 395 million ...

“Finding the fossil fish skull in a dry desert made the lost tropical world of the Paleozoic very real to me,” Harris said in the release. The bony, ray-finned fish had “large, well-spaced ...