Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and ...

They once walked on land—now they can never return. A groundbreaking study uncovers a stunning evolutionary twist that ...

The fossils were found in 2015, but took nearly a decade of painstaking work to excavate, prepare, sort, identify, and analyse. The long-awaited ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian ('fish-lizard') Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (centre). A school of the ...

In an astounding revelation, scientists have unearthed an ancient fish species with a hearing mechanism strikingly similar to ...

Sea snakes have dramatically reconfigured their sense of smell for underwater life. Researchers found their airborne scent ...

In a state famous for its spectacular coastline, the Walton Lighthouse stands as a perfect symbol of California’s enduring relationship with the sea—modern yet timeless, functional yet beautiful, ...

California’s coastline is dotted with treasures, but tucked away at the entrance to Santa Cruz Harbor stands a maritime gem that somehow remains off the typical tourist radar. The Walton Lighthouse ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Leckey’s show at Julia Stoschek, his biggest for a decade, imagines images as a religious force in a godless age ...