For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its ...

This research has made it possible to fully describe the bizarre, very impressive animal for the first time.

Sea creatures keep showing up dead in California waters, and researchers may have an answer as to why. It has to do with their food. One of the largest algae blooms in Southern California has been ...

Scientists have unearthed a 240-million-year-old fossil of a Dinocephalosaurus, a long-necked marine reptile that closely ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

When thinking about where to find fossils in the Buckeye State, the Ohio Statehouse may not be the first place that comes to ...

An 11-year-old girl and her father discovered the remains of the largest marine reptile ever known, Ichthyotitan severnensis, ...

A research ship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be in the waters of the Marianas beginning April 15 as scientists study the health of coral reefs in the region.

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...