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The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset's Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150...
10 kwi 2023 · From the creepiest Cambrian critters to massive marine reptiles, wonderfully weird sea creatures have inhabited our oceans for over half a billion years.
13 lut 2019 · i. Dominating the ancient seas 500 million years ago, the nautilus was a mollusk that thrived when the continents were still forming. Originally, there were 10,000 different species—today, only a few survive in the western Pacific Ocean and coast of the Indian Ocean.
17 kwi 2024 · Scientists have identified what was probably the largest marine reptile ever to swim in the seas - a creature longer than two, nose-to-nose buses.
23 lip 2024 · Called Odaraia alata, this strange-looking critter lived in Earth's earliest oceans at a time when there was a burst of life on the planet, often referred to as the Cambrian explosion.
20 wrz 2018 · The strange sea creatures known as Dickinsonia, shown here in fossil form, lived 558 million years ago. Fossil imprints that resemble the rippled underside of a mushroom’s cap are remnants of...
A team of palaeontologists were brought in for a closer look. They concluded it was an ichthyosaur - a type of warm-blooded, air-breathing sea predator not unlike dolphins. They could grow up to...
