In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

Finding out details about how this gigantic shark survived and eventually went extinct can help us better understand ... Still, Shimada’s findings on how giant sea animals’ size affect their speed ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of ...

About 4,000 years ago on a remote island in the Arctic, the last woolly mammoth died out. Elephantine in shape and size, mammoths (official name Mammuthus primigenius) dominated the northern ...

Invasive sea creatures are turning up along the Jersey Shore and were discovered by a college student and his professor. The marine creatures are called beadlet anemones and are known to sting ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

In a world where new species are constantly being discovered, some creatures remain hidden in the depths of the ocean, defying our understanding of life itself. One of the most extraordinary examples?

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

Human-driven factors such as hunting, colonial expansion, and agriculture have historically contributed to habitat destruction, causing the complete disappearance of some species. The Paradise ...