A newly discovered ichthyosaur skeleton in New Zealand, found by palaeontologist James Crampton in 2010, offers the most complete specimen of its kind in the region. This 98-million-year-old fossil ...

In an unlikely discovery, rocks from Maryland in the United States have helped us uncover the tiny creatures that triggered life on Earth. That's right, prehistoric marine worms could have made a ...

A new prehistoric marine predator has been identified which ... This was one tough old croc in life and death." ...

The study of these finds provides insights into marine life from millions of years ago ... is being studied to understand the ecology of the prehistoric ocean that once covered the region.

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas and the first primitive plants began to appear on land—before the ...