Ancient fish fossils predating dinosaurs by 140 million years have been found in a city centre paving slab. The remains, dating to around 385 million years ago, were spotted in the pavement ...

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 ...

Credit must be given to the creator. Fossilized faeces from a large fish with spiral gut (hence the spirals in the coprolite), showing fish scales indicative of diet. Large coprolite with fish ...

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), ...

A new species and genus of a toothy prehistoric fish has been discovered in Socorro County. A paper, published in "Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan" in December ...

Fossils predating the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years have been found in a paving stone in a Scottish city centre. Thousands of people have walked over the remains of 385 million-year ...

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.