We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...
A 'living fossil' believed to have gone extinct over 270 million years ago has been found thriving in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The strange-looking fossil is formed from the stalks of marine ...
Three Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star at 2000 ft depth in the Bahamas. Image courtesy Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER If you didn’t get a chance to follow ...
Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...
The family tree of a group of sea creatures with an ancient pedigree is being called into question. A study led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has uncovered new ...
The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...
Ripe males and females of the sea lily Metacrinus rotundus were collected by fishnet from a depth of 100–150 m in Suruga Bay, Japan, on 22 September 1998 (specimens 1) and 20 September 2000 (specimens ...
Jurassic sea creatures spent decades as 'full-time ocean sailors', crossing the sea on driftwood 'rafts', a study claims. Analysis of these rafts show they could last for as long as 20 years - enough ...
Ancient sea creatures spent years crossing the ocean on rafts – we've worked out how it was possible
The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...
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