A 40-foot-long sea snake sounds like a gimmick to sell Hollywood movies, but what would you do if I told you it once existed?

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Green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea. Credit: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 2.0 Scientists have revived prehistoric algae that lay dormant for nearly 7,000 years at the bottom of the ...

The turtle-headed sea snake is losing its stripes, and researchers suggest that the change reflects adaptation to fouled oceans. Single-cell analysis revealed the molecular triggers that drive stem ...

located in the North Sea near the Germany-Denmark border, is part of an island chain “naturally void of snakes,” he wrote. But, since the 1970s, islanders have occasionally reported snake ...

A team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW) has successfully reactivated microscopic algae that had remained in a dormant state on the seafloor for nearly 7,000 years ...

We would be better off with lampreys running the country,’ quipped one Facebook user in response to a Republican Congressman’s post about the fish troubles ...

Dark long-body snake eels live in brackish water where the Mekong River meets the South China Sea. They were caught ... It's a new species → Prehistoric creature — with 'armor'-like skin ...