Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as strange and scary. Fossils tell us that long before modern sharks ruled the ...

A walk along the mudflats of Blue Anchor on England’s west coast has helped scientists put a name to a sea monster that may have matched a modern blue whale in length. Fossil hunter Ruby Reynolds was ...

Deep within the fossil archives, an astonishing revelation has emerged from England: the discovery of bone fragments, dating back 202 million years, reveals the existence of a new species of ...

This year, the animal kingdom was filled with triumph, loss and new discoveries. In July, Tom Waddington set out to row more than 2,000 nautical miles from Newfoundland to the United Kingdom by ...

It is usually claimed that the blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth. The largest recorded mass of a blue whale is around 190 tonnes, though a bigger individual has been ...

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In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside village in Somerset in southwest England, to hunt for fossils along the beach. Upon ...

A father and daughter discovered fossil remnants of a giant ichthyosaur that scientists say may have been the largest-known marine reptile to ever... In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and ...

This illustration depicts a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside ...