A team of scientists led by Dr. Matthew McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney unveiled the discovery of a ...
The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...
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 ...
An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...
Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...
Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...
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A Very Handy Fish Fossil

This week, scientists discover something in a fish fossil that might give us a hand in finding our earliest land-dwelling ...
Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...
CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on its skin (shown in orange). Credit: Yara Haridy CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on ...
A newly discovered fish fossil is the earliest known creature with what might be recognized as a face. Entelognathus primordialiswas an ancient fish that lived about 419 million years ago in the Late ...
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.
Kansans learn from an early age that their state tree is the cottonwood, the state song is "Home on the Range" and the state bird is the western meadowlark, which received that designation 100 years ...