A deep sea creature known for living hundreds of meters below the water's surface in the darkness of the deep ocean was photographed in broad daylight last week — in what researchers are saying may be ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

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

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

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 ...

A 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit discovery in Denmark offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric Cretaceous food chain.

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

Self-proclaimed "fossil geek" Peter Bennicke was recently searching a beach at the Cliffs of Stevns in eastern Denmark when ...

The fish is thought to have chewed up and spit out some unlucky sea creatures, resulting in this unique fossil.