Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 67-million-year-old fish fossil preserved rare middle ear bones that amplify sound. New analyses suggest otophysan fish evolved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist holds fossilized evidence of the newly identified fish species, Ferruaspis brocksi, found in New South Wales, ...

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 ...

A fossil found by a pair of hikers last year has turned out to be the skull of a huge new species of prehistoric fish that lived around 72 million years ago. The hikers came across the fossil in ...

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 ...

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...

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 ...