The first published live observations of the rare goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) in its natural deep-ocean habitat were ...

The Cozumel dwarf fox, a rare species previously known only from secondhand reports and fossil records, has been discovered ...

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including ...

The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology published the formal identification of Labrujasuchus expectatus in May, solving the ...

A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of ...

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the ...

The casque of the cassowary glows blue-green under UV light, revealing unseen patterns that could help distinguish species ...

Scientists have discovered Labrujasuchus expectatus, a bizarre crocodile relative that looked more like an ostrich-like dinosaur than anything resembling a modern crocodile. It walked on two legs, had ...

Over twenty years ago, David Harasti, a marine scientist at Australia’s Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, was scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea when he saw a fish unlike any he’d ever ...

Scientists uncovered an incredibly well-preserved dinosaur egg estimated to be around 70 million years old, stunning paleontologists around the world. The fossilized egg survived from a prehistoric ...

The "ghost shark" was discovered off the coast of Australia and are distant relatives of sharks and rays SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists discovered 1,121 new ocean species, including ...

In the crushing darkness of the hadal zone—deep ocean trenches plunging 6,000 m to nearly 11,000 m—scientists have uncovered a hidden community. A study published in Science on May 14 reports the ...