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

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

“It’s very surprising, (and) it’s extremely rare to be able to tell the colour of a fossil fish like this.” Beyond identifying a newfound species, researchers uncovered the first detailed ...

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

alexis chappius A species of coelacanth ... "The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years ...

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

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

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