Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

PHILADELPHIA — The recent discovery above the Arctic Circle of remarkably well preserved fossils from a new species of ancient fish provides a key marker in the evolutionary transition of fish to ...

A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...

Life reconstruction of Platysomus, with open mouth showing toothplate on the floor of the mouth supported by gill bones. ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan researcher helped identify the earliest ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

In an exciting first, an Australian team of scientists identified a new species of freshwater fish that swam in nearby waters over 15 million years ago, offering fresh insights into Australia’s ...