Earth once hosted more than 10,000 species of these ancient marine predators ... chambers separated by thin walls called septa. The animals constantly grew new shell material as they aged ...

A new prehistoric marine predator has been identified which ... The newly identified animal lived in the warm, shallow seas that covered much of what is now Europe. Powerful jaws and big, serrated ...

Scientists have found an answer to an age-long riddle over which came first the chicken or the egg following research on a prehistoric organism that was discovered in 2017 ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

which they believed could be of a prehistoric marine animal from the Jurassic period. However, subsequent analyzes determined that it was a pterosaur close to the adult stage, belonging to the ...

This resulted in the second largest mass extinction of all time, wiping out at least half of all marine animal species about 443 million years ago.

The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer ... Contained within three-dimensionally preserved limestone ...