Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behavior and predator-prey ...

Photographs (left) showing the extinct right whale partial skull with shark bite marks highlighted in red. The more complete ...

The melting of ice sheets causing increased sea levels pushed Earth’s days a little longer. Modern climate change is only ...

Study finds monsoon rainfall was higher in mid-Pliocene period and may rise again with global warming, with a shift in peak ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...

This research shows how close examination of even microscopic fossils can reveal large-scale patterns such as ocean ...

The Indian summer monsoon may change under the impact of global warming, potentially returning to conditions similar to the mid-Pliocene era, according to research by the National Institute of ...

A new study analyzing two fossilized whale skulls from around 5 million years ago has revealed fragments of sharks' teeth lodged inside them. This provides rare evidence of how sharks fed on whales in ...

A painted reconstruction of a bluntnose sixgill shark (or cow shark) scavenging on a tiny extinct right whale carcass during the Early Pliocene of the southern North Sea. A pod of an extinct whale ...

Seed-sized crustacean fossils have revealed that seafloor species crossed the North Pacific five million years ago along active cold-water routes. That discovery reframes how ocean circulation linked ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among the fastest-melting glaciers on Earth. Together, they are losing ice more ...