Two Danish coastal cliffs where paleontologists have uncovered 55-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric wildlife are likely ...

The fossilised remains of a prehistoric fish have been unearthed at a Leeds beauty spot. The skull bone of the coelacanth, ...

A remarkably preserved skull bone from a 320-million-year-old coelacanth, one of Earth's rarest prehistoric fish, has been ...

In a study appearing in Fossil Record, researchers Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert analyzed the remains of a unique fossil type: the decapitated head of Aspidorhynchus, with its gastrointestinal ...

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The specimen also followed an unusual path into the scientific record.

Scientists have traced the fish genus Cyclothone much further back in time by studying tiny teeth preserved in seafloor sediments. According to Yale News, the evidence suggests this group of fish ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...

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Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of the prehistoric swamp near what is now the village of Trawden, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known ...

Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators later gave rise to hunters A fossil the size of a fingernail is rewriting the opening chapter ...