A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ...

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived during the Early Miocene and Early Pliocene eras, as recent as 3.5 million ...

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

Two 325-million-year-old ctenacanth shark fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave shed light on ancient marine ecosystems.

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a ...

Bull sharks have over 350 teeth, and they aren’t afraid to use them. Learn what sets bull shark teeth apart, including the ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

A southern Utah fossil bed once destined to be turned into the site of an electrical substation has been saved from development after the city and a paleontolog ...

Scientists in Australia have uncovered an exceptional fossil—a 15-million-year-old freshwater fish—that provides new insights ...

Over 500 species of sharks exist in our oceans today, ranging from hammerheads (Sphyrnidae) to tiger sharks (Galeocerdo ...

Scientists in Australia have uncovered some ancient secrets thanks to the discovery of a 15-million-year-old fossilised ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest ...