To address this challenge, researchers are turning to the deep-sea fossil record, which offers a unique window into how deep-sea ecosystems and their fauna have responded to environmental changes ...

Meanwhile, ammonites thrived in the sea. Their fossils can often be located in various geological formations, ranging from deep-sea sediments to shallow deposits. For ammonite fossils to achieve ...

Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily, a living fossil previously found only in rocks 120 million years old. British ship Challenger sails the globe while lowering dredges and other gear ...

This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal ... to be unchanged for 125 million years, making them living fossils. They can launch their jaws forward to grab prey.

They believe the fossil is that of a prehistoric sea scorpion. They also believe it would have been the largest water predator in the area over 252 million years ago. The fossil in question was ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

Their fossils reveal striking similarities to their ... over the past 500 million years while floating through the deep sea in a beautifully coiled shell. It lacks intelligence like its modern ...

this rare shark species is often called a “living fossil” of the deep. Named for its ear-like fins, the dumbo octopus gracefully glides through deep waters, making it one of the cutest sea ...

The frilled shark, a rare deep-sea “living fossil,” resembles an eel and was spotted in 2007 near Japan's surface, possibly due to illness or disorientation. In 2014, a goblin shark ...

Saskia Birt uncovers the significant environmental stakes of deep-sea mining and its unforeseen role in oceanic oxygen production.

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...