Palaeontologists have successfully salvaged a 20-million-year-old whale fossil discovered on the Bellarine Peninsula.

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they ...

What if Megalodon never went extinct - and the ocean’s greatest predator kept evolving right into the modern day? In this ...

A study published in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds new light on the magnetic structure of the Afar region's crust and the process of the African continent's division.

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated.

Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once teeming with water, a tropical oasis with vast river systems that may have been able to support life billions of years ago. To get a better picture of ...

A new record of the cirratulid polychaete Diplochaetetes mexicanus Wilson, 1986 from the of Miocene Pirabas Formation outcrops (Burdigalian to Langhian) is documented in the context of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. 2025 was a key year for ocean policymaking, marking the midway point in the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The past 12 ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

At least a handful of Thanksgiving shoppers were disheartened when they went to prepare the holiday staple cranberry sauce last week and found their cans of Ocean Spray did not contain the sauce but ...

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 ...

Cave minerals from far northern Greenland show that the High Arctic once thawed and flowed with liquid water. The new record points to mean annual air temperatures roughly 25 degrees Fahrenheit warmer ...