The fossil is estimated to be about 100 million years old. — -- The skeleton of a 100 million-year-old fish "with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth" has been unearthed in the ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to hunters A fossil the size of a fingernail is rewriting the opening chapter ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...

Life reconstruction of Platysomus, with open mouth showing toothplate on the floor of the mouth supported by gill bones. ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan researcher helped identify the earliest ...

Fossilized fish found in Australia are so well preserved that paleontologists can see what the creatures ate for their last meals roughly 15 million years ago. They described the fish—which belong to ...

Richard Cloutier is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence in Basin Studies and Applied Palaeontology, Mahasarakham University (Thailand). He has received funding from the Natural ...

PHILADELPHIA — The recent discovery above the Arctic Circle of remarkably well preserved fossils from a new species of ancient fish provides a key marker in the evolutionary transition of fish to ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal’s life. While a well-preserved skeleton can provide hints at what an ancient ...

The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found is expected to fetch millions of dollars at auction in New York next week, likely fueling objections from paleontologists. The fossil, estimated to be ...

The fossil is still being excavated at Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming. Courtesy Rally “As we’ve seen the privatization of some of these dinosaurs be way more publicized, people are realizing they can ...

Traskasaura sandrae is a "very odd" mix of primitive and derived traits. A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...