Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't safe from them in rivers either. Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the ...

New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most formidable marine predators did not always stay at sea. From gigantic ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Previously, researchers speculated that oxygen reached the deep ocean in a single shot, around 540 million years ago. But newer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They ...

MAYVILLE, N.D. — A once-in-a-lifetime discovery in rural North Dakota. The fossil remnants of an ancient sea monster. There are many remnants of the ancient past inside Mayville State University: ...

Aerial view of the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Alvarado, Veracruz state, Mexico on February 3, 2025. VICTORIA RAZO VICTORIA RAZO/AFP via Getty Images More than two decades after a skull was pulled ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

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