Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

Romans actually had public toilets—which is honestly impressive. But instead of toilet paper, they used a sponge attached to a stick, called a tersorium. The same sponge was shared by everyone. They ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

Sea voyages from Denmark to Norway may have been possible across open waters, though sticking to the coastline was likely the ...

For over a century, the colossal squid has been one of the deep sea’s most slippery enigmas ... team spent last month investigating an ancient ecosystem revealed by the calving of an iceberg ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new ...