Thalassotitan was one of the largest and most fearsome mosasaurs of the Late Cretaceous, reaching lengths of up to 10 meters ...

Today, oceans host a large variety of fast, resilient marine predators, including tunas, mackerels and various other fish ...

The first shark-like teeth came 410 million years ago, and the first group that really looked like sharks evolved around 380 ...

Sharks keep our oceans and coastal waters healthy. As top predators, they eat weak and sick prey and thus keep fish ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

Most predators slow down when ocean temperatures shift. Great hammerhead sharks don't—not significantly anyway. These ocean predators are masters of the "thermal hustle," maintaining peak hunting ...

Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in ...

A jaw tip worn down by nearly a tenth does not sound like much until you picture what it means. Chipping, cracking, scratches and polish do not appear on their own. Something was hitting back. That is ...

Are you ready for a 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' and Shark Week crossover?

Ocean acidification, driven by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, alters the chemical composition of seawater and has profound consequences for predator and prey interactions in marine ecosystems.