As 2023 comes to a close, it's time to look back on some of the most jaw-dropping fossil discoveries that weren't all about T. rex. From a fish with eyes too big for its stomach to the largest ...

For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been dubbed a “living fossil” because it evokes a bygone era, the age of dinosaurs. These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also ...

Most importantly, it challenged the fossil known as the Piltdown Man. This supposed human ancestor was found in England in 1912. His large brain and apelike jaw supported a hypothesis predicting ...

An eye-popping pachycormus fish in three dimensions is on public display for the first time at Stroud’s Museum in the Park A rare collection of nine preserved fossil fish is on display at a ...

Scientists say they have discovered fossils belonging to a "nightmarish ... Its teeth and strong jaw gave the creature a "nightmarish appearance" and "a terrible biting force", researchers ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

Photos of the fish and its telltale identifiers – an odd-shaped mouth and a protruding knob at its jaw – seemed to confirm it. But the fish, which can grow as large as 66 pounds, was sold ...

The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...

Previously only a dinosaur-era fish fossil had been discovered in Hong Kong by scientists. The discovery came after the conservation department in March alerted its Antiquities and Monuments ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple ...