Iguanas are not typically considered marine creatures — except for the marine iguana. This species of iguana has evolved to ...

In a river of southeastern China, a group of “shiny” creatures with “large” eyes swam through “murky” waters. Something about the animals caught the attention of visiting scientists — and for good ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan's Okayama and Toho universities have conducted a ...

The MEER expedition found 7,000 kinds of microbes in Mariana Trench. Shockingly, 90% of them were completely unknown to ...

Fossilized dinosaur teeth can reveal a lot more than just how these creatures ate and who they were related to – they can ...

Scientists found the 500-million-year-old fossil of a "penis worm" in the Grand Canyon—and reconstructed how the creature would have used its strange mouth to feed.

Few things are more comforting for me at the end of a hard day than watching a crowd of panicked humans screaming and running ...

Officials said oreodonts are the most common fossil animals in the Badlands. They are described as being herbivores, with ...

Nicole Mercuri, 26, was walking along a Florida beach when she spotted a giant tooth that once belonged to a Megalodon, a massive prehistoric shark that roamed the ocean millions of years ago. She was ...

An unassuming sea creature surprised scientists by withstanding ocean pressures nearly 600 times greater than surface level.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unearthed thousands of microscopic fossils from the iconic Canyon, ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of Earth’s ancient atmosphere by analyzing dinosaur teeth. Scientists have taken a giant ...