After the roughly 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Grooves in the limestone at Italy's Monte Cònero may have been left by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake 80 million years ago ...

Marine fossils discovered in England’s Peak District reveal detailed life from a tropical sea that covered the region 340 ...

A set of rare marine fossils dating back 340 million years has been uncovered in England’s Peak District, offering scientists and historians an unusually clear window into prehistoric sea life. The ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

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 ...

Beachgoers in North Myrtle Beach have noticed an unusual phenomenon on their oceanfront strolls. Recently, dead sea creatures such as horseshoe crabs and stingrays have been spotted washed up along ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration’s medical villains announced a two-part plan that would pull federal funding from hospitals if they offer any kind of trans-affirming care to minors, which ...

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

Explore an ancient ocean’s hidden treasures as we uncover stunning crystals and botryoidal agate formations preserved inside fossilized coral during an epic river rockhounding adventure. This ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the ...