A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

Over 50 Triassic coelacanth fossils of mawsoniid, found mislabeled in British museums, show these ancient fish thrived in ...

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 ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...