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

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

A new marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, Traskasaura sandrae, had an unprecedented vertical hunting style.

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

Serrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.

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

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi ...

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

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

These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and ...