Near a village in northeastern India, a “dwarf”-like creature with a “large” mouth swam through the river — or tried to, at ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

A paleontological discovery in Australia offers a rare glimpse into prehistoric aquatic life. This exceptionally ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

the fish and wildlife that call the river home. One species of particular concern was the unique strain of walleye found only in the upper New River. As it turns out, those fears may be unwarranted.

Michael Köck is at the forefront of reintroducing goodeids, an endangered freshwater fish found in Mexico, and founder of the Goodeid Working Group (GWG), a worldwide collaboration between fish ...

The fossil also revealed the color of the fish when it lived. Spots known as melanophores, which contain the pigment melanin, were found along the body of the fish in yellow or orange colors.

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...