Common insects, shrimp, crabs, and the well-known fossil ... and also the oldest terrestrial or freshwater arthropod fossil record outside the Laurasia. Additionally, its discovery has extended ...

On one level, it’s plausible. Plesiosaurs weren’t confined to the seas, they did inhabit freshwater,” the press release reads. “But the fossil record also suggests that after almost a ...

Researchers identified fossils in a 100-million-year-old Moroccan freshwater system as a marine reptile. Previously, the reptile was thought to have only spent time in saltwater. Some once ...

While more research is needed to analyze these fragments, the giant arthropods could be up to six and a half feet long, a new meaning to the term jumbo shrimp. [Related: World’s Oldest Fossils ...

“Ferruaspis brocksi is the first fossil freshwater Australian Smelt to be found in Australia,” said study lead author Matthew R. McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney in a press release.