For about half the travelers who stop in, Fossil Butte National Monument is merely a rest area on a lonely stretch of U.S.

The site is classified as a "Lagerstätte" - a location that contains fossils of exceptional quality with remarkable detail. Professor Jochen Brocks, a researcher from the Australian National ...

Dr. McCurry, the lead author of the paper, said that before this fossil discovery scientists lacked concrete evidence to pinpoint when this group of fish arrived in Australia and how they evolved ...

Tiny structures and soft tissue features are so well preserved in the fossil, scientists could see what colour the fish was when it was alive. The discovery provides evolutionary clues for the ...