Just four years before "The Little Mermaid," Disney Animation's most ambitious project ever nearly destroyed the entire studio. But — like many other '80s bombs — it found its audience years later.

We know surprisingly little about the deep ocean or the strange creatures that live there. These unusual animals have evolved ...

A tsunami could be what swept the trees from land to the ocean so quickly, the study authors write. If true, this could offer scientists a potential new technique for finding prehistoric tsunamis.

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...

Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies holds evidence of prehistoric ocean life, including a new species. Gerry Shea via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, animals didn’t follow the ...

Its sheer size and powerful build made it a force to be reckoned with in the prehistoric oceans, leaving little room for any competition. The Mosasaurus was not always the giant predator that it ...