A fossilized tooth of a cartilaginous fish found in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido in 2013 is of a newly discovered ...

NANJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- An international research team has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region that provides insights into the evolution of ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Q: Tell me about some of the important fossils you've found in Pennsylvania ... It's not like the shoulder girdle of a fish at all. So it was easily separable from all the fish material that ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since ... the bones of the jaw and skull have continued to evolve. In fact, study co-author Richard Cloutier, an ...

In an exciting first, an Australian team of scientists identified a new species of freshwater fish that swam in nearby waters over 15 million years ago, offering fresh insights into Australia’s ...

A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan, a wormlike fish that flourished around 520 million years ago ... of the skeletons of the vertebrates still alive today and gave rise to structures such ...

Dr. McCurry, the lead author of the paper, said that before this fossil discovery scientists lacked concrete evidence to pinpoint when this group of fish arrived in Australia and how they evolved ...

“Ferruaspis brocksi is the first fossil freshwater Australian Smelt to be found in Australia,” said study lead author Matthew R. McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney in a press release.

Tiny structures and soft tissue features are so well preserved in the fossil, scientists could see what colour the fish was when it was alive. The discovery provides evolutionary clues for the ...