Research has shown that pelagic sharks tend to have longer, narrower fins compared to their benthic relatives, which typically possess shorter, rounded fins. A key to understanding how sharks navigate ...
In 1902, professional fossil hunter Barnum Brown excavated a stunning set of bones from eastern Montana’s Cretaceous period ...
About 100 million years ago, the oceans of the Cretaceous period could be the stage of fierce battles between giant predators ...
The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...
The death strike of a Cretaceous "hell ant" from 99 million years ago is preserved in amber, revealing how these demonic-looking ants hunted. Buckyballs are geometric shapes previously only seen in ...
Paleontologists have described a new species of mosasaur with "angry eyebrows" that lived 80 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...