Where did the name “Atlantic Ocean” actually come from? The answer leads back to ancient Greek mythology, early maps, and ...
A giant shark vertebra missing since 1989 is rediscovered in storage after being mistaken for junk, confirming the ancient ...
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...
A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...
From Jules Verne-inspired submarines to NASA-backed underwater habitats, the dream of an undersea civilization came closer ...
After more than seven centuries, the third-longest-surviving of the seven ancient wonders is rising again, offering ...
Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...
A humanoid sea creature popularized in Japanese internet forums, the Ningen is an Antarctic cryptid that may have first been ...
It might share its name with the largest meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived, but this isn’t the T.rex we all know and ...