The fossil is estimated to be about 100 million years old. — -- The skeleton of a 100 million-year-old fish "with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth" has been unearthed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Cloutier is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence in Basin Studies and Applied Palaeontology, Mahasarakham University (Thailand). He has received funding from the Natural ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

Life reconstruction of Platysomus, with open mouth showing toothplate on the floor of the mouth supported by gill bones. ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan researcher helped identify the earliest ...

A gigantic dinosaur twice the size of a city bus will soon be on display for the public to see – its one-of-a-kind green bones and all. The team of paleontologists who discovered, recovered and ...