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50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows School of Baby Fish in Their Final Moments

May 30, 2019 | Article

Baby fish swam in schools 50 million years ago, according to this remarkable fossil held in a Japanese museum.
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Coral Reefs Have 'Halos,' and They Can Be Seen from the Heavens

April 24, 2019 | Article

What's the story behind reefs' mysterious "halos" of empty sand?
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Fossil 'Death Pit' Preserves Dino Extinction Event … But Where Are the Dinosaurs?

April 02, 2019 | Article

What happened after the Cretaceous-ending asteroid struck Earth? A new fossil site may have answers.
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Photos: Cretaceous 'Graveyard' Holds a Snapshot of the Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact

April 02, 2019 | Image Album

A fossil site in North Dakota preserves a unique snapshot of the minutes after an asteroid struck Earth around 66 million years ago.
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Giant, Weird-Looking Fish With 'Startled' Eyes Washes Up on Aussie Beach

March 20, 2019 | Article

When a group of Aussies spotted the behemoth on the beach, they initially thought it was a rugged piece of driftwood. Upon closer inspection, however, they realized it was the body of an enormous, bony fish.
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Sunfish Bigger Than a Hot Tub Got Lost and Washed Up in the Wrong Hemisphere

March 01, 2019 | Article

A fish so mysterious that scientists named it the "hoodwinker" because it had eluded them for decades has washed ashore in California, thousands of miles from its home in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Photos of Colorful, Majestic Marine Creatures Are 'A Visual Feast'

February 27, 2019 | Image Album

Photographers from around the world competed to take home the top prizes in the 2019 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest.
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This Fish Just Gave Evolution the Finger and Got Pregnant

February 21, 2019 | Article

Mary's species of fish never evolved to have sex or incubate live young. She did it anyway.
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Did Great White Sharks Wipe Out the Giant Megalodon?

February 13, 2019 | Article

Teaser: A re-examination of the fossil record has produced a new theory of the super-fish's demise.
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A Drunk Man Swallowed a Live, Venomous, Spiny Catfish. Here's What Happened.

January 25, 2019 | Article

As part of a drinking game, a 28-year-old man from the Netherlands attempted to swallow a living fish with some powerful natural defenses.
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