Have you ever wondered how the delicate structures hidden deep within your ears first came to be? It’s astonishing to think ...

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

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the ...

The upper jaw tooth, about 3.2 centimeters long ... the English journal of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. The fossil of a tooth from newly-named fish species Callorhinchus orientalis ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Giant freshwater crayfish, up to 25cm long, once roamed New Zealand's ancient lakes around 20 million years ago, three times the size of today's native species, a new ...

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 ...

“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.

The fossil of the ancient fish, named Ferruaspis brocksi, was found at McGraths Flat, a fossil site near Gulgong, New South Wales. The name derives from "ferru" (Latin for iron) due to its ...