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It looked like a shadow at first — but after several minutes, a rare species of deep-sea shark had swum by an underwater camera 54 times, delighting researchers. The Miami Herald reported on the events, which happened in the Caribbean’s Cayman Islands. A group of scientists, conducting the area’s “first systematic investigation” of deep-sea biodiversity, lowered their camera to a …

From a Ceratosaurus that went up for auction in July to a Stegosaurus that broke records last year, it’s not unusual for fossilized bones to go to the highest bidder. One of latest specimens hitting the auction block went extinct relatively recently, but it’s still expected to fetch a high price. A dire wolf skull is predicted to net at …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Metamorphosis,” now streaming on Hulu. Midway through “Metamorphosis,” Boy Kavalier and his faithful synthetic sidekick Kirsh get into a debate about the wisdom of bringing the creatures retrieved from the Maginot wreckage back to Prodigy’s Neverland headquarters. Kirsh not unfairly points out that Kavalier is risking a decade of …

In this illustration, a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. (via AP)Provided by Ruairidh Duncan , via AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely …

Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day South America. The meal, however, turned out to be rather ambitious, because the croc hadn’t come upon just any old prey. It was a phorusrhacid, a large carnivore in its own right, aptly known as a “terror bird.” The now-extinct terror bird …

A version of Predator: Killer of Killers with an extended ending featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character Dutch and Danny Glover’s character Mike Harrigan will broadcast tonight. Predator: Killer of Killers is an animated Predator movie that ends with a tantalizing look at how the Yautja store people who survive a Predator hunt. This extended ending, due to be broadcast tonight, July …

Fossilized bite marks suggest there could have been a dramatic tussle between a gigantic terror bird and an even more massive crocodile around 12 million years ago. Phorusrhacids, commonly known as “terror birds,” were apex predators that terrorized prey in the ancient ecosystems of South America. While these flightless carnivores had little to fear on land, a new study, published …

A new discovery in one of the most remote and extreme parts of the ocean is challenging our understanding of life at incredible depths. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, at nearly 8,000 meters, scientists have found an organism that defies expectations. For decades, this dark and hostile environment was thought to harbor only scavengers, but recent findings suggest there is …