What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, ...

Here’s everything you need to know about finding these Fossil bones in Fisch.

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was ...

New analysis of ancient bones and fossils found in a Highland cave has revealed them to be "fishier than the average bear" ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

To be a living fossil, an organism needs to have ancient ... The low rates of substitution in this group of fish thus correspond to low rates of speciation — meaning the lineage has not ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous, but there are many others. Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum the seas for ...

The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to increase through donations and fieldwork by Museum staff most recently in Morocco and Oxford. In 2007, a large donation by David Kemp ...

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 ...

The fossil of the now-extinct fish was originally recovered from a layer of soapstone in the roof of the Lancashire mine and was first scientifically described in 1925. Though only its skull was ...

The results obtained make it possible to reconstruct the skeleton of these fish with a level of detail never before obtained for this type of fossil. This is a new species named Graulia ...