Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including ...

A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the largest soft-shelled egg on record and the second largest egg ever discovered — might belong to a mosasaur, a reptilian sea monster that lived ...

Monument Rocks Chalk Pyramids in Kansas offer one of the best fossil hunting experiences in the Midwest. Explore ancient sea ...

An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of ...

An ichthyosaur was pregnant with twins when she died, a fossil from Cretaceous Chile reveals.

Scientists discover giant predatory worms dating back 518 million years Revealing Ancient Life in Extraordinary Detail Radiodont fossils typically offer limited insight into soft internal anatomy.

Prehistoric puke offers clues about ancient sea predators’ diets Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, dating back more than 500 million years. The numerous fossils of the ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

Trilobites Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans.

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.