An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and massive, predatory sharks. For decades, the paleontological consensus was that ...

The discovery of a marine fossil cache in a Spanish cave redefines our perception of Neanderthals. These seemingly useless ...

An octopus species that lived about 80 million years ago had a body length of up to 19 meters and was likely the top predator in the oceans, researchers said.

Scientists know far less about what happened to fishes in the seas during the first few million years after the dinosaur extinction ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

What started as a regular geology field trip turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for 12-year-old Corbin Bullard.