Several billion years ago, tiny little creatures called cyanobacteria may have changed the colour of the ocean.

Learn about Dunkleosteus, an ancient apex predator that ripped apart large fish with sharp bony blades that lined its mouth.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile from Germany's world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, expanding our understanding of prehistoric ocean ecosystems that ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ...

Around 115 million years ago, the waters off northern Australia were home to a giant shark that totally flips what we thought ...

This Florida river was once part of an ancient ocean, and today its waters are loaded with fossils. As we explored the ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...

A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of the ocean’s best masters of disguise: the marine file snake. At first ...

Scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric oceans have flocked to an unlikely place: western Kansas. And today, the fossils embedded in these... Prehistoric oceans in Kansas could hold clues about ...

Northwestern University Ph.D. student, Luca Podrecca takes a break from research in the field near Mount Ashibetsu in Japan. By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...