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Lost Megalodon Vertebrae Confirm 24.3‑Metre Maximum Length

Micro-CT growth-band counts provide new life-span data with fragmentary basking‑shark remains in the matrix interpreted as possible stomach contents.

Largest Whale Graveyard Found 7,000 Meters Beneath Indian Ocean

Giant Cretaceous Octopuses May Have Ruled the Seas, Science Study Finds

Giant Cretaceous Octopuses Identified From 27 Fossil Beaks

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Fossil Reclassified as a Nautiloid

“Smiling” Holy Island Pebble Likely a 350-Million-Year-Old Crinoid Stem, Experts Say

Scientists Name Salwasiren qatarensis From Qatar’s Densest Sea Cow Fossil Bed

115-Million-Year-Old Australian Shark Fossils Push Back Onset of Giant Body Size in Modern Sharks

New Study Recasts Dunkleosteus as Cartilage-Heavy, Shark-Like Oddball

Decapitated Jurassic Fish Heads With Guts Intact Reveal Diet and Predators

Scientists Name Shark-Like Oligocene Whale Janjucetus dullardi

Scientists Name New Long-Necked Plesiosaur From Germany’s Jurassic Fossil Beds

Mammoth Cave Yields Fifth New Shark Species: Macadens olsoni

Greenland Fossils Show Cambrian ‘Squid’ Were Ancestors of Arrow Worms