The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

D scans of ancient lungfish jaws reveal how early fish evolved to eat differently - offering fresh insight into vertebrate evolution.

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

Its diet likely included trilobites, smaller cephalopods, and even early armored fish ... As the Ordovician period gave way to new ages, other marine animals rose to prominence, and the legacy of ...

Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

Near the rocky beaches of inner Nova Scotia, a researcher’s hunch led to the discovery of a new prehistoric species. /iStock ...

Cutting-edge digital fossil-mining reveals early squid evolution, diversification, and importance in marine ecosystems.

The fossil jaw found in Nova Scotia belonged to a 350-million-year-old fish named Sphyragnathus tyche Blue Beach fossils reveal survival of Devonian-style fish into the Carboniferous Period Modern ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

He was involved in studying the new fossils and using it to recreate the evolutionary history of modern starfish and their relatives. “We found clear evidence for a characteristic that links this ...