When scientists crawled into Mammoth Cave —a.k.a. the largest known cave system on the planet— they weren’t expecting company ...

Ancient Greek Nearchus' Indian Ocean voyage showcased ancient maritime courage and leadership through a daring naval “battle” with whales.

A "very odd" sea creature fossil from Vancouver Island has been officially identified as a new species, Traskasaura sandrae.

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

A strange, long-necked marine predator from the age of dinosaurs has finally received its name, after more than 20 years of ...

Jellyfish are brainless, boneless, eyeless creatures that are 95% water. Despite this simplicity, however, they’ve withstood ...

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

The long-necked plesiosaur Traskasaura sandrae—which grew up to 39 feet long—is "unlike any other," said researchers.

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...