A paleontological discovery in Australia offers a rare glimpse into prehistoric aquatic life. This exceptionally well-preserved fossil reveals surprising details, from its diet to its colors. In the ...

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 ...

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...