Examination of a set of Tharsis fossils has revealed to researchers a possible cause of death for some of these creatures. This shocking cause of death was swallowing belemnites (squid-like ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. One of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossils. The stomach contents of the fish show ...

A tiny fossil fish, roughly 3 centimeters long and approximately 436 million years old, has been identified as the oldest ...

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

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 ...

Learn how a fossil tooth embedded in a plesiosaur reveals a violent attack by a giant predatory fish in the Cretaceous sea.

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...