When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs – leaving their distinct burrows behind in the process. New research, published in ...

Long before whales ruled the oceans, ancient bone-eating worms were already thriving on the seafloor, feasting on the ...

Paleontologists in southwestern China have unearthed fossils of *Dinocephalosaurus orientalis*, a 240-million-year-old marine ...