As 2023 comes to a close, it's time to look back on some of the most jaw-dropping fossil discoveries that weren't all about T. rex. From a fish with eyes too big for its stomach to the largest ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since ... the bones of the jaw and skull have continued to evolve. In fact, study co-author Richard Cloutier, an ...

Northeastern Australia, once submerged under the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous, was home to massive pterosaurs. In 2021, ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

The international team of scientists concluded that the pattern and shape of the teeth, jaw morphology and ... the value of studying fossils, as the area where the fish were found is among the ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says ... But they do have a cartilage skeleton, a shark-like skull and jaw, and at least some shark-like teeth, which were often fused together.' ...