The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

A groundbreaking discovery was made in the deep waters of the Palau Islands when the research vessel E/V Nautilus encountered a rare marine creature ... This ancient cephalopod, often described ...

A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

A tiny, wrinkly, sack-like sea creature with a huge mouth and no anus could be your ancestor. Saccorhytus was an ancient creature that roamed the Earth 540 million years ago, and according to a ...

Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient ... Sea, prized for its caviar. Found in fresh and salt waters in the Northern Hemisphere, the sturgeon is a bizarre-looking ...

it wouldn’t exactly have been an intimidating sight in an ancient ocean. It likely didn’t pose much of a threat to its fellow sea creatures, and probably spent the majority of its life just ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

Lovecraft’s chilling science-fiction novella At the Mountains of Madness, a group of researchers uncovers the ruins of an ancient ... with sea spiders, icefish, octopuses. Some of the creatures ...

Even more astounding, over half of them are entirely new to science. The fossils are what’s left of ancient sea creatures that settled on the seafloor upon death, becoming covered in mud and ...

a flying reptile and many other ancient sea creatures. Image caption, While Mary Anning was alive, only men were allowed to be part of the scientific community. This meant she wasn't able to ...