Several activities for all ages are planned during the Fossil Fish Festival Saturday, May 6, at the University of Wyoming Geological Museum. Activities, free and open to the public, are from 10 a.m.-1 ...

Some extinct species left copious fossil remnants of their existence. Ammonites—an extinct type of cephalopod—are one such example. From the Devonian right up until the Paleocene, wherever ancient ...

The University of Wyoming Geological Museum will host the annual Fossil Fish Festival Saturday, April 20. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling our own. By examining a 67-million-year-old fossil, researchers from UC ...

A fossil found by a pair of hikers last year has turned out to be the skull of a huge new species of prehistoric fish that lived around 72 million years ago. The hikers came across the fossil in ...

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 ...

KEMMERER - Fossil hunter Bonnie Finney says there's no feeling in the world like cracking open a slab of 50 million-year-old rock and finding a fish or bird fossil inside. And what a feeling it was ...