The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water. You’re ...

But as the continents spread, the ocean currents churned with ever more vigor. After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures ...

Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...

Across opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean more than 3,700 miles apart ... are believed to be part of the Early Cretaceous period, according to a study published Monday by the New Mexico Museum ...

About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a major driver of the largest mass extinction in our ...

The UK's famous White Cliffs of Dover are just one of many Late Cretaceous chalk deposits. Chalk is laid down in marine environments, and the fossils within it can tell us about the creatures that ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme ...

Massive volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions contributing to an extreme global ocean deoxygenation event over 120 million ...

Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on ... And eventually, the South Atlantic Ocean filled the void between these two newly-shaped continents.

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

Jacobs, found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean – in Brazil and Cameroon. More than 260 footprints were found in the two locations ...