When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Long before whales ruled the oceans, ancient bone-eating worms were already thriving on the seafloor, feasting on the ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China have unearthed fossils of *Dinocephalosaurus orientalis*, a 240-million-year-old marine ...

CT scans of Cretaceous fossils reveal seven ancient worm species that bored into marine bones and shaped deep-sea ecosystems.

Reconstruction of ocean pH finds rapid acidification of oceans caused by massive and sudden CO2 rise caused a mass extinction event 201 million years ago ...

The evolutionary quirks unveiled by the new research offer insight into how a subset of ichthyosaurs lived and hunted– and ...

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An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

The Cretaceous Period witnessed a remarkable diversification of marine reptiles, among which plesiosaurs featured prominently. These secondarily aquatic reptiles adapted to a range of ecological ...