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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite everything I learned, I still had questions: What did fish look like before the ray-finned and lobe-finned split? Were ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...