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

Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs – leaving their distinct burrows behind in the process. New research, published in ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

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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.