A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a ...

The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team has found through a new method using digital technology.

Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors ...

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...

It's a finding that reveals just how numerous squids were in the Cretaceous ocean, even though their fossilized remains are rarely found. Related: This Ancient Vampire Squid Is Destined to Clutch ...

Millions of years ago, long-necked sauropods and snarling Tyrannosaurs roamed a world thick with heat, teeming forests, and ...

Oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) are contemporaneous with 11 of the 18 largest Phanerozoic extinction events, but the magnitude and selectivity of their paleoecological impact remains disputed. OAEs are ...

Researchers uncovered matching sets of hundreds of dinosaur footprints in Africa and South America, revealing a dinosaur highway used 120 million years ago.

How did the Cretaceous mass extinction affect the ocean? The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history. Over 66 million years ago, a 15-kilometre-wide ...

More information: Valentin Fischer et al, How mid-Cretaceous events affected marine top predators (2025). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-3100 Provided by European Geosciences Union ...