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 ...

A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark. CNN values your feedback 1.

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 ...

But unlike today's ocean denizens, the old sea that once lapped across much of our city was home to an astounding and sometimes eye-popping array of ancient animals, including Pontolis barroni, a ...

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 ...

Prehistoric 10-foot 'sea lizard' once lived in the North State; ... As the animal grew, it built bigger and bigger chambers to house its body. So over its lifespan, the coil grew, too.

Excavations in Czechia revealed a prehistoric mammoth hunting camp, complete with mammoth skeletons. Screengrab from Oblastní muzeum v Ústí nad Labem's Facebook post From the duck blind to the ...

The skeleton of an extinct prehistoric reptile predator, known as a sea dragon, is the largest and most complete ever discovered in the U.K., researchers said Monday.

Prehistoric puke offers clues about ancient sea predators’ diets Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.