These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

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 ...

In an exciting first, an Australian team of scientists identified a new species of freshwater fish that swam in nearby waters over 15 million years ago, offering fresh insights into Australia’s ...

Paleontology is an exciting field, loved by many for its discoveries about past life on Earth. Fossils uncovered by paleontologists can provide clues about what extinct species looked like, how they ...

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...

illustration: A school of Ferruaspis is chased by the extinct platypus, Obdurodon. Named after Professor Jochen J. Brocks from the Australian National University, who discovered several of the ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...

For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...