Mr Ryan explained that the darker lumps running along the flagstone’s edge were likely to be bone fragments from fossilised fish. The fossils date from the Devonian period in Earth’s history ...

The other fishes from this collection are notable for the preservation of the skull bones. Mantell’s early collection consists of many fossils from the Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous of Sussex, ...

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), ...

The fish are perfectly preserved in boulders found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia Usually, it is bones rather than soft tissues that are turned into fossils - but at this location in ...

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 ...

Researcher Dr Roy Smith said stomach contents discovered in fossils were the "smoking gun ... in which we found small fish bones as stomach contents. "The fact that these two pterosaur species ...

Since cartilage is softer than bone and teeth, it doesn’t fossilise very well. But we’ve learned a lot about the history and evolution of sharks from their fossilised teeth. ‘We think early sharks ...

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.

Medical scanner reveals bones within rocks The ichthyosaurs of New Zealand have remained poorly understood due to the lack of well-preserved specimens. This fossil promises to change the narrative.