A focused search for ancient marine vertebrates during a paleontological resource inventory of Mammoth Cave National Park has yielded a wealth of new fossil...
Flinders University paleontologist Brian Choo and his colleagues have described a new genus and species of Devonian tetrapodomorph fish based on several...
The megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, which likely reached at least 15 m in total length, is an iconic extinct shark represented primarily by its gigantic...
Giant bacteria are intriguing, underexplored biological enigmas. Many well-studied giants use abundant internal small-molecule stores and/or light to satisfy...
In new research, ornithologists from the Field Museum and elsewhere analyzed the whole genomes of 30 diverse kingfisher species to identify the genomic...
Sharks occupy diverse ecological niches and play critical roles in marine ecosystems, often acting as apex predators. They are considered a slow-evolving...
A new genus and species of petalodont (petal-toothed) shark has been identified from fossilized teeth found in cave passages of Mammoth Cave National Park...
The newly-discovered species of gobiid fish, Tomiyamichthys elliotensis (common name is the Lady Elliot shrimp goby), is currently known only from Lady...
Paleontologists have found 130-million-year-old trace fossils from abyssal plain turbidites of the ancient Tethys Ocean. Combined with nannofossil dating,...
Marine biologists have discovered a new species of the wrasse genus Iniistius living in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.
The eclipse-spot razor wrasse (Iniistius...
Using animal-borne video cameras, marine scientists have investigated the type, duration and energetic consequences of predator-prey interactions in little...
The hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), a common fish in the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Brazil, is known for its color-changing skin. The...
Marine biologists have described a new species of the shark genus Heterodontus from northwestern Australia based on six whole specimens and a single egg...
The ‘eel hypothesis’ proposes that the anthrozoological phenomenon at Loch Ness in Scotland can be explained in part by observations of large-bodied...
Few fast-swimming apex fishes are classified as regional endotherms, or partially warm-blooded, having evolved a relatively uncommon suite of traits (e.g....
A new species of the ctenochasmatid pterosaur genus Petrodactyle has been described from an unusual specimen found in the Late Jurassic limestone beds...
Otodus megalodon, a megatooth shark that lived between 23 and 3.6 million years ago, was not a fast swimmer, but it had a mega-appetite explaining its...
Now known for its sports teams, Harleys, and beer, early Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was one of the nation’s leading producers of natural cement, and...
