A great white shark has been found dead on the coast of ... in frequency in the coming decades," Vazeos said. Research from UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries has modelled that without ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been found, but no teeth. If these were from sharks it would suggest that the earliest ...

A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...

Found off New Zealand, the species adds crucial knowledge about this little-known and odd-looking group of deep-sea fish ...

A newly discovered species of ancient shark has been named after a 1980s arcade game. The shark swam in the rivers of what is now South Dakota, US, about 67 million years ago, living alongside ...

But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still lurking in the dark depths of the ocean? Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

The fossil may have lost water, or color, or the proteins of the soft tissue may have degraded. Unaltered hard parts: teeth and very recent shells, bone or shell encased in petroleum or in ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...