As with sea horses, sea dragon males are responsible for childbearing. But instead of a pouch, like sea horses have, male sea dragons have a spongy brood patch on the underside of the tail where ...

Spanning from 145 million years ago to 66 million years ago, the time saw the beginning of the end for some of Earth’s largest species and the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea. Evidence of this ...

The deep-sea dragonfish is one of the most mysterious and fearsome creatures lurking in the ocean's depths. Known as a top predator in the deep sea, this fish has evolved incredible adaptations to ...

Director Ridley Scott may have just found his next alien. An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores. This discovery ...

It wasn't a dinosaur. But it was the fossilised remains of a 10m-long sea predator called an ichthyosaur. And it was the largest of its type ever discovered in the UK. "I looked down at what ...

once ruled as the ultimate predator. Resting in the sandstone of Wakayama Prefecture for 72 million years, this leviathan's remains surfaced in 2006, uncovering a forgotten era when immense sea ...

This aquatic predator would have lived in the Pacific ... It's known as Wakayama Soryu, which means "blue dragon", and has some features similar to mosasaurs found in New Zealand and in California ...