Some animals once believed extinct have stunned scientists by reappearing decades, centuries, or even millions of years after vanishing from the fossil record or disappearing from human observation.

THE remains of a “very rare” 320million-year-old fish have been discovered at a UK beauty spot. The fossil of the coelacanth ...

For decades, the coelacanth existed in scientific literature as a creature of the distant past. Fossils showed that members ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists have long suspected that the same catastrophe also transformed life in the ...

The specimen also followed an unusual path into the scientific record.

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

In a study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Steve Etches published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the osteology and systematic position of a new species of fossil fish, Brachyichthys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the diversity of 62.2-million-year-old fish found in the Qreiya 3 fossil site. The discovery tells of a ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...