The Hjortspring boat was essentially a very large canoe used in an ancient raid. In the 4th century BC, several boats ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

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A recent video shows a massive bluntnose sixgill shark emerging from the deep sea. This ancient species, predating dinosaurs, ...

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King of the Monsters, Rodan flew into the Monsterverse to leave a big impression. Awakened to defeat King Ghidorah, the grand ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

For generations, Dunkleosteus terrelli, also known as Ohio’s state fossil fish, has been a familiar figure for those in the Cleveland area, regarded as one of prehistory’s great sea monsters. This ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

360 million years ago, Cleveland’s shallow seas were home to a fearsome predator unlike anything we see today: Dunkleosteus. This ancient fish, growing over 14 feet long, is famous for its bizarre ...