The serendipitous discovery of an exquisitely preserved fossil near Gulgong in NSW provides a glimpse into the evolution of ...

But, without fossils it has been hard for ... the researchers were even able to make out tiny, subcellular structures in the skin of the fish, called melanosomes, which give tissues their pigment.

But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush, temperate rainforest. Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site ...

A powerful microscope enabled the team to identify “tiny color-producing ... colour pattern of a long extinct fish species,” Dr. Frese continued. “The fossils formed between 11 and 16 ...

We reached these conclusions by examining the chemistry of sand-sized fossils, called foraminifera, from the seafloor south of Tasmania. Foraminifera are tiny single-celled organisms, either ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

He added, “Using a powerful microscope, we were able to see tiny color-producing structures known as melanosomes ... Excitement of Paleontology “This little fish is one of the most beautiful fossils I ...

A tiny shark species dating back hundreds of millions ... is where more than 70 species of sharks and other fish have been identified. Located along the southern border of Kentucky, the area ...

Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America ... During processing, tiny black roe scatter across the tables, wash ...

Confronting images of dead seadragons, fish and octopuses washed up on South ... Today we can reveal the culprit was a tiny—but harmful—type of planktonic algae called Karenia mikimotoi.