One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since palaeontologists uncovered ...

From amphibians to reptiles to all the creatures living under the sea, Kelly Geck takes care of them all at the Cook Museum of Natural Science, and the Ohio native said she finds the ecosystem in ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

Federal data only tells part of the story of how the global wildlife trade is fueling nature loss, a new study shows.

This new research provides the first concrete evidence that loggerhead turtles hone this remarkable ability. This superpower ...

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...