(Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have unearthed beautifully preserved fossilized hearts and other internal organs of ancient armored fish in a discovery that provides insight into the evolution of ...

An international team of scientists has described a rare fossil site that is believed to be among the earliest evidence of different fish species using a common nursery — much like ones utilized by ...

Exceptionally well preserved fossilized soft-tissue organs from Devonian-age placoderms reveal new insights into the early evolution of jawed vertebrates, according to a new study. The origin and ...

A new study by Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. student Russell Engelman published in PeerJ attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and other ...

A well-preserved cephalic shield from the Escuminac formation on the north shore of Chaleur Bay, opposite Dalhousie, is described and figured.

In the limestone ranges of Western Australia’s Kimberley region, near the town of Fitzroy Crossing, you’ll find one of the world’s best-preserved ancient reef complexes. Here lie the remnants of ...

Scientists have shown that the Titanichthys -- a giant armored fish that lived in the seas and oceans of the late Devonian period 380-million-years ago -- fed in a similar manner to modern day basking ...

The discovery of a group of young, prehistoric fish fossils provides some insights into the way the extinct creatures survived their youth -- and how fish today might be similar to them. An ...

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 90, No. 6 (2016), pp. 1212-1224 (13 pages) Three new species of the new genus Phyllonaspis are described from Early Devonian localities in the western United States.

PHILADELPHIA (March 27, 2013) -- In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Fossils of ...