"They almost look like dinosaurs, because they've got these ... of the evolutionary history of this long-lived group of fish." The fossil is also significant because it is the first new species ...

“This was basically a dinosaur trying to build a fish tail,” says National Geographic Emerging Explorer Nizar Ibrahim, the lead researcher examining the fossil. The structure of the bones ...

“These fossils in the paving slab are the remains of ancient fish dating to around 385 million years ago – around 140 million years before the first dinosaur.” The stone used in the pavement ...

For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been dubbed a “living fossil” because it evokes a bygone era, the age of dinosaurs. These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also ...

That’s what scientists have interpreted from the pose of the dinosaur’s fossil skeleton. With the creature’s head tucked over its limbs and tail snugly wrapped around its body, its cozy ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

Thai palaeontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur, marking the first time such a prehistoric flying reptile ...

Nearly a century after a collection of dinosaur fossils were discovered by a collector in Egypt and brought to Germany, newly ...

Some modern lamprey species are sometimes billed as ‘vampire fish’ because they suck ... “There have been no other lamprey fossils from the dinosaur age that preserve their terrorizing ...

An extremely rare dinosaur-era animal vomit fossil has been discovered in Denmark ... species of sea lilies that were likely eaten by a fish. “The collection consisted of at least two different ...

But its story, like a lost relic, was nearly forgotten to time. In 1914, the fossil of this large dinosaur was unearthed in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt. Later, the fossil was shipped to ...