Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

Ancient marine reptiles called Lariosaurs (a type of nothosaur) prowled the Triassic Seas for lobsters and other bottom-dwellers. Predatory reptiles that trawled the oceans during the age of the ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

DENVER – Did a giant kraken troll the Triassic seas, crushing ichthyosaurs and arranging their bones into pleasing patterns? It sounds like a Halloween tale, but researchers who first suggested the ...

Newly discovered fossils from China show a swimming reptile with a small head, tiny eyes and a bill similar to a modern duck-billed platypus. Like the platypus, Eretmorhipis carrolldongi probably used ...

A skeleton of the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Shastasaurus liangae. The head is to the right. From Sander et al., 2011 Everybody knows that chewing your food carefully is part of good table manners. No ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

DENVER — Did a giant kraken troll the Triassic seas, crushing ichthyosaurs and arranging their bones into pleasing patterns? It sounds like a Halloween tale, but researchers who first suggested the ...

Predatory reptiles that trawled the oceans during the age of the dinosaurs used a rowing motion to scoop up prey, new track marks uncovered in China reveal. The newly discovered tracks are from ...

Predatory reptiles that trawled the oceans during the age of the dinosaurs used a rowing motion to scoop up prey, new track marks uncovered in China reveal. The newly discovered tracks are from ...

This fossil discovered in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada may be part of the beak of an ancient giant cephalopod, such as an octopus or squid. This fossil discovered in Berlin-Ichthyosaur ...