New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

This week, scientists discover something in a fish fossil that might give us a hand in finding our earliest land-dwelling ancestors. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called ...

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 ...

In an exciting first, an Australian team of scientists identified a new species of freshwater fish that swam in nearby waters over 15 million years ago, offering fresh insights into Australia’s ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

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 ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...