Australia preserves one of the longest and most extraordinary fossil records on Earth, spanning more than 500 million years ...

Deep in the ocean, where food is scarce and sunlight never reaches, lives a strange giant crustacean known as the supergiant ...

Tylosaurus rex rewrites the story of giant sea predators, not just for its size but for what its bones reveal about mosasaur ...

Earth’s oceans cover 71% of the planet, but humans have only explored less than 20% of the seas. Scientists believe there are many undiscovered creatures living in its depths. Some species, like the ...

Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without having to observe or catch them ...

This video shows a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) swimming beneath the ocean surface in deep blue water. The whale is recognized by its enormous rectangular head, which makes up a significant ...

We tell the tragic story of Steller's sea cow - a marine animal that went extinct just 27 years after it was first discovered.

A giant "sea dragon" backbone plucked from a riverbank in Mississippi could belong to the largest mosasaur ever found in the state, scientists say. Researchers only found a single vertebra from the ...

Nicknamed the “king of the kelp forest,” giant sea bass are among scuba divers’ favorite characters to spot off the California Coast. But very few of these charismatic fish remain. A team led by ...

Nicknamed the “king of the kelp forest,” giant sea bass are among scuba divers’ favorite characters to spot off the California Coast. But very few of these charismatic fish remain. A team led by ...