A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became smaller, prey fish ...

Buried For 15 Million Years, This Fossilized Freshwater Fish Has Been Waiting To Show Researchers Its Colorful Scales And What It Had For Lunch. Story by Kyra Piperides • 1w.

Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia, ... The discovery suggests this freshwater species thrived in what was once a lush rainforest environment during the Miocene Epoch.

Fossils of 15 million-year-old freshwater fish discovered in Australia represent a species completely new to science — and they still have the remains of their final meals in their stomachs.

Based on where the fossils were found, it’s likely that the species lived its entire life in freshwater. This contrasts with currently existing Osmeriformes species and underscores how specimens with ...

Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit ...

Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia, with last meal still intact. ... One specimen of fish had a freshwater mussel attached to its tail fin.

Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia, with last meal still intact. Alex Boersma via CNN Newsource An illustration of F. brocksi highlights what the species may have looked ...

Researchers unearthed the fossilized freshwater fish, named Ferruaspis brocksi, at the McGraths Flat site in central New South Wales, according to a study published March 17 in the Journal of ...