The enormous skull of an ancient sea monster was located on a beach in the county of Dorset in 2022. Paleontologists learned that the bones were of a pliosaur, an apex predator that roamed the ocean ...

For as long as mankind has walked the earth, it has known fear and rightly so. There have always been predators that may charge across a savannah in search of their next meal, and serpents and spiders ...

David Attenborough stands next to the recently discovered pliosaur fossil at the Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life in Kimmeridge, England. BBC Studios Fossil hunters have discovered one ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

The gigantic skull of a predatory sea monster that preyed in the oceans millions of years ago has been excavated from a cliff in the United Kingdom in what scientists are saying is one of the most ...

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A seven-foot skull belonging to an ancient sea monster was discovered in Dorset. The pliosaur was an apex predator that roamed the ocean 150 million years ago. The skull contains 130 razor-sharp teeth ...

Despite the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico, if you type in “Pensacola sea monster” in an internet search you’re most likely going to find most results centered on one story from March 1962. I was ...

When you go this deep, you'd expect any sign of life to be pretty terrifying. So scientists were delighted to discover an adorable new species of snailfish thousands of feet below the ocean's surface.