The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

In the vast and mysterious depths of prehistoric oceans, colossal creatures once ruled the waters. These marine giants, such ...

In the warmth of the late Cretaceous, sea levels were much higher ... including sea turtles, sharks and saber-toothed salmon. This part of New Jersey was about 70 feet underwater and 15 to 30 ...

They then shrunk again, before being wiped out alongside the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous ... including the remains of sharks, worms and even an octopus ancestor named after former ...

Milner said the fish were thought to be extinct from an asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous until a species ... Experts attribute the prevalence of shark and other fish finds extracted ...

Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria acuta belonged to the Mosasauridae family, an extinct group of lizards whose ...

Spring is having one helluva time freeing itself from the cobwebs of winter. While meteorological narratives indicate April can run as hot and cold as any other month out there, one might anticipate ...

Fish filled in the oceans, food to fuel sharks, which were fast ruling the waters in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods ...

Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Aug. 26, 2024 — An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur ...

The western United States is a treasure trove due to a combination of factors: We live during a sweet spot in time when the rock layers laid down during the end of the Cretaceous Period have ...

The $75 million project In southern New Jersey takes visitors from the late Cretaceous period – the heyday of the ... as a school bus – to dime-sized invertebrates and prehistoric sharks’ teeth. Just ...