Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were ...

What lives off the Northwest coasts of Spain and shrinks to one-fifth of its size when alarmed? Enter the accordion worm.

Endomyarian anemones are stunning, and researchers spent 20 months observing them to understand their role on the seafloor.

When we think of the age of dinosaurs, we often picture huge reptiles like Tyrannosaurus rex or long-necked dinosaurs ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of describing it scientifically. The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost ...

Though hardly a household name, the 97-year-old, 100-employee company is “probably the foremost tug designer in the world,” ...

Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

“Scientists once believed that only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn to find a beat,” ...

Be glad you weren't around when these Jurassic speed demons lurked the Earth. They were faster, and deadlier, than anything ...

Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of ...

An "odd-looking" deep-sea fish recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach to the surprise of a local aquarium. The Seaside ...