An unusually well-preserved Australian fossil reveals details about the diet, behavior, and appearance of a ...

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

The serendipitous discovery of an exquisitely preserved fossil near Gulgong in NSW provides a glimpse into the evolution of ...

“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...

The fossil also revealed the color of the fish when it lived. Spots known as melanophores, which contain the pigment melanin, were found along the body of the fish in yellow or orange colors.