An international team of scientists has described a rare fossil site that is believed to be among the earliest evidence of different fish species using a common nursery — much like ones utilized by ...

Scientists estimate more than 99 per cent of all species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils. Fossils are ancient organisms’ ...

Exceptionally well preserved fossilized soft-tissue organs from Devonian-age placoderms reveal new insights into the early evolution of jawed vertebrates, according to a new study. The origin and ...

A well-preserved cephalic shield from the Escuminac formation on the north shore of Chaleur Bay, opposite Dalhousie, is described and figured.

A team of Australian scientists has discovered the world’s oldest heart, part of the fossilized remains of an armored fish that died some 380 million years ago. The fish also had a fossilized stomach, ...