The Lamniformes includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white and mako sharks as well as less ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

A drone shot of a large black shape that might be Champ following their boat underwater has earned movie producers Richard ...

After examining the fossils, scientists think the huge prehistoric predator would have measured up to eight metres in length ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about ...

In the rolling hills of southwest Germany, there is a rock layer that has yielded some of the most spectacular marine fossils in the world. Known as the Posidonia Shale, this 183-million-year-old ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

Robert Clark, Academic Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Professor at Marshall University, says Traskasaura sandrae is from the elasmosaur family of plesiosaurs. They are some of the longest plesiosaurs ...

A remarkably well-preserved 183-million-year-old Plesiopterys wildi fossil, discovered in southern Germany, is revolutionizing our understanding of plesiosaurs. The fossil, initially found in 1940 but ...

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University researchers, working with an international investigative team from Chili and Canada, have identified a group of fossils as belonging to a new genus of sea creature ...

A nearly complete specimen of Plesiopterys wildi from Germany provides fresh insights into plesiosaur diversity and regional specialisation A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is ...