"But here is an animal, probably a kind of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived on the bottom of the Cretaceous Sea and regurgitated the skeletal parts again," he noted.

Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic ... long-necked and toothy marine reptiles terrorized fish, ammonites, and mollusks in the seas; pterosaurs and hairy ...

Xiphactinus was one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous and is considered one of the fiercest creatures in the sea. A powerful tail and winglike pectoral fins shot the 17-foot-long (5 ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

It lived 84-81 million years ago and is thought to have hunted fish, squids and ammonites. The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew ...

Bioluminescence, the ability of living organisms to emit light, is a fascinating phenomenon observed in various life forms, ...

Mantell’s early collection consists of many fossils from the Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous of Sussex, including fish such as chondrichthyans (represented by shark teeth) and actinopterygians.The first ...

By analyzing genetic data from these deep-sea fish, the researchers reconstructed ... lineages that colonized the deep sea before the Cretaceous mass extinction, while "new immigrants" account ...

A Danish fossil hunter discovered a 66-million-year-old chunk of fossilised vomit, likely from a fish that couldn't digest ...