Scientists have uncovered a 50-million-year-old fish fossil that is so unique it may be classified under a new genus. Let’s ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

The Chongqing fish fossil depository is world’s only early Silurian Lagerstätte which preserves complete, head-to-tail jawed fishes, providing a peerless chance to peek into the proliferating ...

Fossils are ancient organisms’ preserved ... Placoderms are a class of prehistoric armoured fish that first appeared during the Silurian period around 443 million years ago.

While growing up along the Welsh border with England, I used to collect fossils from deposits of the Silurian and Devonian ... our understanding of the fish-to-land-animal transition (see Diva ...

The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that first appeared during the Silurian ... bone-plated fish that lacked jaws developed a range of bizarre forms. Fossil specimens ...

including recent studies on fossil eurypterid-bearing Silurian carbonates in Pennsylvania and fossil fish-bearing Devonian fluvial strata in north-central Pennsylvania. Mars-Earth analog studies of ...

One of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossils. The stomach contents of the fish show that they fed predominantly on phantom midges. . | Credit: Salty Dingo 2020 Fossils of 15 million-year ...

A Silurian fossil from Shropshire, England, interpreted as a priapulid worm. The curved body is about 7cm long. Rare example of a fossil sipunculan worm. This 4cm-long specimen of Lecthaylus comes ...

Paleontologists discovered fish fossils in New South Wales, Australia, which have been dated back 15 million years ago and still retained their last meal in their stomach, during an excavation in ...