The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

Fossils of Tiktaalik roseae blended fins with hints of limbs and sported a flat head suited for peering above the waterline.

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

Most would count themselves lucky to find a fossil or two of either kind, but this latest remarkable fishy find comes complete with a ... year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented ...

Paleontologists discovered fish fossils in New South Wales, Australia, which have been dated back 15 million years ago and still retained their last meal in their stomach, during an excavation in ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how complete it is. Credit: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History photo After the storms from 2024 pummeled the Gaviota ...

According to museum staff, the fossil is “unusually complete,” as most similar fossils are often found fragmented. While whales from its era (mid-Miocene) are common, for so many bones to be preserved ...

a local paleontologist confirmed the fossil was that of an Ichthyosaur – a prehistoric marine animal. True to their name, which means fish lizard in Greek, according to National Geographic ...

the fossil Driesbach discovered is unique because of how complete it is. The fossil includes the head and a significant portion of the vertebrae and tail. “You find a vertebra here, a chunk of a ...