A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

I first read Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, Ferruaspis brocksi, that shows preserved stomach contents as well as the pattern of ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University ...

Paleontologists excavating a 62.2-million-year-old rock layer in Egypt have uncovered a petrified aquarium. The unexpected cache of fossilized fish—containing about 500 specimens from more than 20 ...

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 ...

Sanaa El-Sayed, University of Michigan doctoral student, senior student researcher at Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center and assistant lecturer at Mansoura University, is pictured with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — Fossil finding tours have returned at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site. This is your opportunity ...

Hidden beneath the soil, researchers have uncovered fossils from an ancient rainforest that lived between 11 and 16 million ...