This mouth structure wasn’t an evolutionary relic, however. It was actually a specialized feature that allowed them to thrive. It now appears Dunkleosteus boasted a head and jaw more reminiscent of a ...

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.

The collection of markings is now thought to have been left by a herd of ancient sea turtles that had been frightened off by ...

Dunkleosteus used strong muscles, wide opening jaws, and hidden cartilage structures to bite large prey with speed and force.

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Deep beneath Kentucky’s rolling hills, in the dark reaches of Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have unearthed the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 4th-century BC sacrificial complex at an ancient necropolis in Russia’s Southern Urals.

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...

In an isolated Norwegian fjord, a marine biologist uncovers gruesome deaths and tentacled sightings linked to an ancient, ...