These early amphibians even retained bony scales typical of their fish ancestors ... These remarkable skin fossils not only shed light on critical innovations necessary for the conquest of ...

The Museum’s large collection of fossil fishes contains approximately 90,000 specimens, of which 5,000 are type or figured specimens. The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to ...

Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils ... fish that first appeared during the Silurian period around 443 million years ago. The term placoderm means “plated skin” in Greek.

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 ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was discovered in a Peruvian desert. The fossil of the gharial—or fish-eating ...

Over time this salt water freshened and became known as Lake Bude. In the 1930s, the remains of a fossil fish were discovered in the unique Bude Rock Formation. The fossil was classified as a new ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth ... breathed through simple lungs and their skin. They may have spent most of their lives in the ...