and Europe discovered an exceptionally well-preserved ancient primitive Devonian coelacanth fish in remote Western Australia. This fossil discovery suggests that plate tectonics also significantly ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Around 380 million years ago, the site was a tropical reef teeming with more than 50 species of fish. Ngamugawi wirngarri, the new fossil coelacanth, is the first fish found in the area to bear a ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Anyone who gets six of the 12 activities on a passport stamped will receive a free 450-million-year-old Ordovician fossil. Young children will take home a small toy dinosaur from the Dino Dig.

The discovery of these jaws with blunt, mushroom-shaped teeth reveals how this Late Cretaceous predator specialized in crushing shells.

This era of intense bombardment, known as the Ordovician impact spike, may have resulted from meteorites falling from the ring rather than flying in from space, which would explain the strange ...