A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

The post Marine Heatwave Leads To The Extinction Of Two Critically Endangered Species Of Floridian Coral first on ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

Officials found a morbid sight greeting them on the bow of a docked cargo ship in Gloucester City, New Jersey.