The oceans have produced some of the largest animals ever to exist, from prehistoric predators that dominated ancient seas to ...
Because this fingerprint turned up in both Siberia and South China, the team interprets it as evidence of a worldwide shift ...
Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...
Deposited over millions of years, the whale necropolis is covered with deep-sea species, many of which are new to science.
Scientists have discovered that some of Earth’s earliest complex life forms lived on the seafloor and depended on oxygen, ...
About one hundred and ten million years ago a shallow sea covered what is now arid inland Australia. Australia’s most ...
A new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface – and offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems today ...
The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...
Vienna - Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that finished off the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. “It’s ...
Animals that defy every visual expectation of what a living organism should look like are turning up on ROV cameras in the ...