The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming through the world's oceans today. Blue whales can reach lengths of 100 feet, but one of their smaller relatives isn't too far behind. Right whales, ...

Northwestern University Ph.D. student, Luca Podrecca takes a break from research in the field near Mount Ashibetsu in Japan. By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount ...

Scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric oceans have flocked to an unlikely place: western Kansas. And now, the fossils embedded in these... Believe it or not: dry western Kansas is the place to ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

More than 500 million years ago, something in the ocean changed. Some creatures evolved to build their own hard-shelled exterior. Others grew to sizes never seen before as the amount of oxygen on the ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't safe from them in rivers either. Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the ...

Despite an extreme environment characterized by high pressure, high temperature, strong acidity and low oxygen levels resembling living conditions in prehistoric times, hydrothermal vents harbor a ...

Researchers analyzed radioisotopes in layers of fossilized volcanic ash. Decay of uranium to lead within tiny crystals enabled scientists to precisely pinpoint dates for certain events. They ...