More than two decades after a skull was pulled from rock in northeastern Mexico, scientists have finally put a name to the creature it belonged to — and it turns out to be a species entirely new to ...

A big fish story? Maybe so: The greatest sea monster of the Devonian Period (Dunkleosteus terrelli) may be getting downsized. A new article contents that the famous sea monster of the Age of Fishes ...

The biggest sea sponge on record, estimated to be thousands of years old and bigger than a car, was discovered by a team of NOAA scientists off Hawaii.

For hundreds of years, the Kraken was a source of terror in people's minds as a gargantuan creature with unimaginable power that was said to live under the ...

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Geologists in Mississippi unearthed a large vertebra belonging to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a giant marine reptile from the late Cretaceous period. The discovered vertebra, potentially the largest ...

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for centuries, ...

Case Western Reserve University scientist PhD student applies new calculations to reveal downsizing and chunky details about species from Devonian Period About 360 million years ago, in the shallow ...