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 ...

These remarkably well-preserved fossils come from a key transitional period in the long evolutionary history of this fish ...

Fossilization is a tricky business; some species preserve only a few bones, while others are discovered with a one-in-a-billion level of completeness. Most would count themselves lucky to find a ...

“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 ...

Namely that new species of coelacanth were more likely ... "For more than 35 years, we have found several perfectly preserved 3D fish fossils from Gogo sites which have yielded many significant ...

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 ...