A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

In today’s oceans, sea turtles, marine iguanas, saltwater crocodiles, and sea snakes are the primary reptilian residents amongst tons of mammals and fish. This was not always the case, as fossil ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

Sea turtles have traversed the deep, blue sea for over 100 million years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Today, seven distinct species exist, according to seeturtles.org. Six of them ...

Ichthyosaurs represent a diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that rapidly adapted to fully aquatic lifestyles following the end-Permian mass extinction. Their streamlined, 'fish-like' body plan, ...

A new species of ancient marine reptile, a plesiosaur, has been identified that swam the oceans 183 million years ago. The discovery was made by studying a fossilized skeleton from Germany’s Posidonia ...

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by ...

The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited ...

Scientists unearthed a skull from a fossil-rich area of northern Nevada that reveals striking answers about ocean life — both past and present. The new species is dubbed Cymbospondylus youngorum — a ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

SPITSBERGEN, Norway - The remains of the earliest known ‘fish-lizard’ from the Age of Dinosaurs have been found on a remote Arctic island. Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists found fossils of the ...