An unusual type of fossilized fish can be found within the limestone of present-day Germany. The Late Jurassic era conditions ...

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, ...

In a study appearing in Fossil Record, researchers Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert analyzed the remains of a unique ...

Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that ...

73-million-year-old fossil of ancient Salmon found in Arctic (Image: UAF/Kevin May) The oldest known salmonid has been discovered by scientists in the form of a 73-million-year-old fossil found in ...

A fossil later confirmed to be a new ancient fish species and named Whiteia anniae Photo: Courtesy of Xu Guanghui Xu Guanghui, a research fellow with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

When you think of prime locations for finding fossils of the ancient creatures that inhabited our planet thousands of years ago, notable places like Egypt and China may come to mind. But what about … ...

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have ...

Experts have uncovered the earliest known example of a fish with extra teeth deep inside its mouth—a 310-million-year-old fossilized ray-finned fish that evolved a unique way of devouring prey.

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...

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 ...