One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean ...

Ancient images weren’t always meant to be decorative. Many carried symbolic or ritual meaning we no longer understand. Some ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A lecture titled “Once Ancient Oceans: How Geology Shaped New York Waterways” will be presented Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, ...

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

A 66-million-year-old tooth discovered in North Dakota, USA, suggests that some mosasaurs — extinct lizard-like reptiles that could grow up to 12 metres long — may have hunted in rivers as well as ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...