Scientists have traced the fish genus Cyclothone much further back in time by studying tiny teeth preserved in seafloor ...

The fossil record has historically included few fish for about 10 million years after the mass extinction event 65 million ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, Ferruaspis brocksi, that shows preserved stomach contents as well as the pattern of ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch ...

Fish otoliths—the calcium carbonate structures found in fishes' inner ears—from human harvested fish, prey fish (those eaten by predatory fish) and reef-sheltered fish (also known as cryptobentic fish ...

Nernberg discovered five fossilized fish preserved in Paskapoo Formation sandstone from the Palaeocene epoch, while digging a basement for a new house in north-west Calgary. Paleontologists date the ...

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