was recently published in the journal Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science. The fossil, dating back approximately 160 million years to the Late Jurassic Period, has been named Darwinopterus ...

The fossil, dating back approximately 160 million years to the Late Jurassic Period, has been named Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. According to Wang Xiaolin, one of the corresponding authors from the ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush, temperate rainforest. Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site ...