All other animal fossils discovered before this time have been from animals that lived and breathed under water. A prehistoric millipede had previously been thought to be the first to make the ...

A 437-million-year old scorpion was the earliest known creature to venture from sea onto land, a new study has found, shedding new light on one of the earliest chapters in the planet's ...

The 50-pound, 2.5-foot-long skull is believed to have belonged to a long-extinct dolphin-like animal that swam in a shallow sea that once covered most of Maryland—and it could even have come ...

According to scientists in Denmark, this is what happened some 66 million years ago to two crinoids, ocean-floor animals also known as sea lilies, that were swallowed by a prehistoric underwater ...

The skeleton, which was discovered in northern Venezuela, is a rare example of one animal being preyed upon by two different predators during the Early to Middle Miocene epoch (23 million to 11.6 ...

The animals had a range of different sizes and features, but mostly shared small heads, long necks, and big bodies. (See a prehistoric time line. "If the Loch Ness monster ever existed, this would ...

A giant sea creature with flaps instead of fins, a segmented body like a lobster, a helmet-like head, and a bizarre set of spiny front appendages is the newest addition to the eccentric pantheon ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A research team has detailed the discovery of a new kind of prehistoric marine reptile. The specimen, which was discovered in 1995 by rancher Ann Pfister on her Wyoming property ...

Father-daughter team helps discover giant prehistoric sea beast The ancient ocean predator, which grew as long as a tractor-trailer, may be the largest of its kind known April 17, 2024 More than 1 ...

Robot probes mystery of prehistoric sea creature’s swimming style. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 08 / 170830102635.htm ...