Quick Take Large-body sharks in the Lamniformes family appeared 15 million years earlier than science previously claimed.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

Skipping town and starting over somewhere new is never easy, and being immediately placed into indentured servitude and called annoying by all your neighbors certainly doesn’t help. But that’s exactly ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal’s body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

The barge was deployed in sections to maximize surface area for marine life colonization. New structure, a little longer than the length of a football field, was added to the Sea Girt Reef in November ...

(CNN) — Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

Although the squid may appear at first glance to have "teeth like a human," in reality the feature consists of "circular, folded lips, of which only the upper and lower portions can be seen." The ...