The “long-vanished” sea once covered part of what is now ... accompanying other large, prehistoric marine reptiles housed ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

Paleontologists found the 202-million-year-old jawbone of the largest prehistoric "sea dragon" to roam ... Like most large ...

DENVER — The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has a new exhibit exploring the depths of prehistoric oceans. Jurassic Oceans: ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously ... million years ago. Sea surface temperatures ...

Females likely migrated hundreds of miles to lay eggs on sandy beaches, much like sea turtles do today ... In fact, marine turtles were the only seagoing reptiles to escape extinction at the ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group ... dinosaurs lived on land, not in the sea. Their skull ...