The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

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 ...

Fossilized fish found in Australia are so well preserved that paleontologists can see what the creatures ate for their last ...

The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish got more than they bargained for picking off algae and slime from dead ...

Scientists in Australia have uncovered an exceptional fossil—a 15-million-year-old freshwater fish—that provides new insights into the prehistoric world. This rare discovery, led by a team from the ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

A study published in the Nature journal alters how the evolution of fish has been historically understood. Fossilized fish and other sea creatures have often been pivotal in new scientific discoveries ...