When the Deep Was Ruled by Monsters For decades, Hollywood has served us ferocious tyrannosaurs and sneaky raptors on a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising underwater site in the Indian Ocean, revealing nearly 500 well-preserved whale remains ...

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean is known for its large low-oxygen zones that are increasing in size, putting marine life at risk. New research shows that 15 million years ago, the opposite was true ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska rock records show ocean deoxygenation began nearly 8 million years before the end-Triassic mass extinction. (CREDIT: ...

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean salty blob. In a study of ancient ocean geochemistry, a Rutgers researcher ...

The late Cretaceous marine food web may have had a terrifying kraken-like creature among its top ranks. A new analysis of ancient octopus jaws suggests that many of the animals were bone-crunching ...

Scientists pulled 40,000 fossil spine fragments from the deep ocean floor and traced sea urchins living there for 104 million ...

Mars had a vast ocean with ancient beaches, suggests data from China's Zhurong rover. (artist's Impression of a rover on the surface of Mars). Mars was once home to a vast ocean, complete with sandy ...

The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it ranks among the worst biological crises in Earth’s history. Around 201 million years ago, ...