Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic ... long-necked and toothy marine reptiles terrorized fish, ammonites, and mollusks in the seas; pterosaurs and hairy ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Bioluminescence, the ability of living organisms to emit light, is a fascinating phenomenon observed in various life forms, ...

It lived 84-81 million years ago and is thought to have hunted fish, squids and ammonites. The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew ...

Xiphactinus was one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous and is considered one of the fiercest creatures in the sea. A powerful tail and winglike pectoral fins shot the 17-foot-long (5 ...

The chalky find contains portion of sea lilies likely consumed by a fish predator from the Cretaceous era. The fossil was discovered at Stevns Klint—a UNESCO-listed coastal cliff in Denmark ...

Prof. HE Shunping's team from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with ...

The bones belonged to a new species of titanosaur, a long-necked and herbivorous dinosaur considered a “gentle giant,” ...

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals—dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous ... enigmatic tiny "fish" from a remote ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...