Among the best finds were several fossil fish with excellent details of their scales, fins and even their eyeballs. One of the most impressive discoveries was a three-dimensionally preserved fish head ...

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

The Museum’s large collection of fossil fishes contains approximately 90,000 specimens, of which 5,000 are type or figured specimens. The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Although the fossil was originally discovered in the 19th ... The 16-inch-long cephalopod chomped down on an 8-inch-long fish called Dorsetichthys bechei. The researchers said the fossilized ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ferocious-looking fossil fish has been unearthed from a remarkable new Jurassic dig site just outside Stroud, in Gloucestershire. The creature - a tuna-like predator called Pachycormus - is ...

The fossil was from the early Jurassic period about ... That title goes to a marine animal called the placoderm, also called an armoured fish. It existed 400 million years ago.