Scientists in Argentina have found the remains of a giant carnivorous marine reptile, or plesiosaur, which lived 150 million years ago in Antarctica.
A 508-million-year-old critter — one that looks like a weird lobster with 50 legs, two claws and a tent-like shell — is the oldest known arthropod with mandibles on record, a new study finds.
With a death rate of 50 to 100 people a year, box jellyfish is by far the deadliest sea creature. Its complex venom can kill a person in less than five minutes, making it one of “the most deadly in the world,” according to National Geographic. What is this?
Hundreds of years ago, European sailors told of a sea monster called the kraken that could toss ships into the air with its many long arms. Today we know sea monsters aren't real--but a living sea animal, the giant squid, has 10 arms and can grow longer than a school bus.
Megalodons were the largest sharks and went extinct 2.6 million years ago. Megalodons are the largest sharks that ever lived. This huge shark had 7-inch teeth. Fossils have been found all over the globe, and they've been extinct for approximately 2.6 million years.
The vaquita is the world's rarest sea mammal and one of the most endangered animals in the world. Their name means 'little cow' in Spanish, and they are a unique species of porpoise, with a small, chunky body and a round head.
The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
The blobfish was named the "world's ugliest animal" in an online poll.
But the true ruler of the sea is the killer whale. Killer whales are apex predators, which means they have no natural predators. They hunt in packs, much like wolves, which are also at the top of their food chain.
The northwestern Pacific Ocean is the least healthy of the world's oceans and the western Indian Ocean and eastern central Atlantic are the healthiest, according to a new assessment that gives the overall health of the Earth's oceans a barely passing grade of 67 out of 100.
While King Kong (1933) could be described as the first giant monster movie, with its giant ape going berserk in Manhattan, it was writer Ray Bradbury who inadvertently invented the genre as we now understand it.
Monsters usually resemble bizarre, deformed, otherworldly and/or mutated animals or entirely unique creatures of varying sizes, but may also take a human form, such as mutants, ghosts and spirits, zombies or cannibals, among other things.
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002.
No. Despite exploring some very relevant themes, the film is not based on one specific case or true story. Instead, it draws its inspiration from a novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers, which was the inaugural winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature in 1999.
"Unfortunately, no, we do not have evidence of dragons on this planet. We do have evidence of very cool extinct animals that were kind of similar to dragons, but no fire-breathing six-legged vertebrates, I'm afraid."
In the lead are Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) that can dive from the ocean's surface down to 2,992m (9,816ft) thanks to adaptations that help them conserve oxygen and survive extreme pressure . These elusive whales aren't competing for glory, but hunting for deep sea squid.
One species that did survive, originally a land creature that adapted to live in the sea became the Ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaur means “fish lizard” in Greek. They were fish-like in appearance, with a tail and paddle-style appendages used to propel and steer themselves.
Ichthyosaurs are extinct sea dinosaurs, marine reptiles from the order Ichthyosauria and lived between 250 and 90 million years ago. There are more than 50 known genera within Ichthyosauria, comprising of around more than 100 known species, and their size varies widely.
The honey badger has been called the world's most fearless animal because it doesn't hesitate to attack animals much larger than itself- even lions and crocodiles!