infernalis in the shape of its "tail" and lower beak ... of new species of Vampyroteuthis in deep-sea ecosystem," Dajun Qiu, an author of the bioRxiv paper with the South China Sea Institute ...

They were not the first vertebrates to return to the sea ... under their bodies, and when they walked their spines undulated in an vertical plane. That’s why whales swim by beating their tails ...

Now, a new paper ... Deep Sea Research Part I. One side of the nudibranch — known colloquially as a sea slug — is a “voluminous hooded structure at one end” with a “tail fringed with ...

The repeated evolution of reptiles that lived entirely at sea was possible ... mosasaurs had shark-like tail fins. Lindgren et al. PLOS One, August 2010 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 The largest ...

A merman who performs at an aquarium in China has become an overnight sensation. Several online videos have amassed millions of views showing the man, decked out in a floral print mermaid tail ...

Geologists at the Iowa Geological Survey found 150 pieces of fossils about 18 metres (60 feet) under the Upper ... creature's length was tail, Lamsdell said. There were larger sea scorpions ...

A new study suggests that some plesiosaurs, in addition to fishy scales on their flippers, had humanlike skin on their tail regions, similar to the features of some living sea turtle species.Credit ...