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

Earth was once ruled by giant reptiles. Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of tyrant lizards, crushed bones. Spinosaurus hunted in rivers. Triceratops used horns for defense. Stegosaurus had plates and a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...