For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

These strange creatures, often referred to as "living fossils," have made an extraordinary leap into present-day consciousness while providing a link to the times long past, unchanged since the ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting, ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity.

Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

It belonged to a Squalicorax falcatus shark, which prowled the ocean 90 to 100 million years ago, according to Wight Coast Fossils on the ... on land, at sea, and in the air (all dinosaurs ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.