A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ...

"The eggs of today's bony fish can no longer develop normally" at such a high temperature, researcher said. Researchers learned of the fossil about five years ago after fossil collector Jim Jenks ...

"This fossil is part of the Osmeriforms fish family – a diverse group of ... larvae of midges – tiny flying insects that lay their eggs in water, where the larvae grow until they are ready ...

The fossils are 235 million to 242 million years ... Although modern flying fish are all egg-layers, male Wushaichthys possessed hooklets on the anal fin resembling those seen on modern viviparous ...

Fossil records indicate that the spade-nosed ... However, pollution, habitat destruction and over-harvesting - of their prized eggs and the fish itself - led sturgeon to disappear from the region ...

Fossils indicate that the spade-nosed fish ... The current population assessment is the largest since Georgia first collected eggs from fish in Wisconsin, raised them in a hatchery and released ...

"This new species of fossil is named Vaillantoonia jonasoni, so (it has) my last name, something I never would've thought possible." Alan uncovered a chimaeroid fish egg capsule specimen dating ...

Now, decades after its original discovery, scientists have taken a more careful look at the well-preserved ammonite and the fossil fish it was seemingly nestled against. What they found surprised ...

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 ...

Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in fossil form. And it's now arrived at a museum in Denmark. The fossil was found at Stevns Klint, a cliff in eastern Denmark known for ...

Fossils have been recovered in a number of strange and surprising places including museum drawers and deep in present day deserts. More than a century ago, a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish ...