The coast of Taiwan's Penghu Islands at low tide in January 2024, and how the shallow sea extends out, near where a fossil ...

Ric Edelman, left, whose donation helped build the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum ... a multitude of sea creatures died here — a “mass death assemblage” — and sank to the bottom of what ...

Horseshoe crabs are often called “living fossils” because they’ve ... supports their high-energy lifestyle and deep-sea adventures. Most spiders have blue-coloured blood, too.

Researchers believe that lower sea levels during colder periods allowed a group of ... which arrived on the island during the later Pleistocene. Fossil remains of H. creutzburgi are abundant on the ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Scientists also got their hands on sea spiders during the voyage. Despite their name, sea spiders are more closely related to crabs, but like arachnids they have an exoskeleton and eight legs.

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

Fishers dredged up Penghu 1, along with other animal fossils, from the seabed of Taiwan’s Penghu Channel—an area that was part of the Asian mainland during the lower sea levels of the ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...