The scientific term for fossilized vomit is regurgitalite. Surprisingly, the timeless throw up is far from the oldest out there — Dr. Milàn said that Germany, for example, has laid claim to an even ...

There were 150 teeth preserved within the dental record of the shark skeleton. An incredible fossil of an 8 foot long shark - that would've roamed the Earths oceans about 150 million years ago ...

Most of the shark’s skeleton was composed of cartilage, which rapidly decays and doesn’t leave behind fossils. Now, all that remains of the magnificent megalodon are teeth, vertebrae and ...

The remains of a prehistoric sea cow tell story of multiple predator attacks In a nutshell A remarkable fossil discovery in ...

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect ...

A SCIENTIST made a bizarre discovery after breaking open a piece of chalk and finding 66 million-year-old fish vomit. The find dating back to the age of the dinosaurs was made by fossil hunter ...

Sharks belong to a group of creatures known as cartilaginous fishes, because most of their skeleton is made from cartilage rather than bone. The only part of their skeleton not made from this soft, ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...

All of that and still boneless. “We think early sharks developed a cartilaginous skeleton because it better suited their lifestyle,” Emma Bernard, Fossil Fish Curator for Natural History ...

In the quiet cliffs of Stevns, Denmark, a 79-year-old amateur fossil hunter split open a piece of chalk last November and ...

Shark skeletons don’t include any bones at all. But their jaws, spinal column and the cartilage surrounding their brain are strengthened by calcium salts, which get deposited into their skeletal ...