We often look at skeletons (when we look at them at all) as reconstructions: bones dug out of the ground or dissected out of a body, then carefully fitted and wired back together. But this process can ...

Five years ago, Zach Schwartz saw one hell of a fish. He came across it while surfing the internet, not the ocean. Regardless, it was unlike anything he’d ever seen. It was the skeleton of a swordfish ...

The prehistoric sea creature Dunkleosteus terrelli had the strongest jaws ever for a fish, according to a recent study. Artists’ renderings of the animal show an iron-jawed leviathan, sometimes with a ...