(CN) – Sea urchins’ sharp new teeth are a chip off the old block: Research published Wednesday in the journal Matter confirms how spiny echinoderms sharpen their teeth by breaking them off. “The ...

A sea monster with teeth so sharp they formed a "saw-like blade," swam in the waters of what is now Morocco about 66 million years ago, a new study finds. Miners discovered the remains of this ...

Sea urchins have five teeth, each held by a separate jaw in a circular arrangement at the center of their spiked, spherical bodies. Now, researchers have discovered how the teeth of the pink sea ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

Online viewers were flabbergasted over a ghastly-looking sea creature washed up on a beach in California, as depicted in a Reddit post making waves online. “It’s giving me nightmares,” read the post ...

Even millions of chewing cycles and regular contact with rocks and hard shells can’t dull sea urchins’ teeth. New research from Northwestern Engineering researchers, in collaboration with the ...

In January 2021, researchers in Israel spotted an unusual sea creature in the Gulf of Eilat. It was a rare Sousa plumbea, also known as an Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, according to the Israel Nature ...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered what’s responsible for making the teeth of ...

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