The discovery in northern Japan indicates that ocean circulation across the North Pacific was more interconnected than ...

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

Ocean acidification caused a mass extinction of marine life 66 million years ago, research into tiny shell fossils has shown. This could have implications for the current climate crisis, which is also ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

A seven-year-old boy in Matlock, Derbyshire, uncovered ancient ocean fossils right in his own yard, once part of an ocean paradise. However, the fossils actually originated from Dorset. Three months ...

Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out together is tricky. Ideally, scientists would study how ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be much more stable—and robust—than previously thought. Analyzing nitrogen ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

Newly discovered kelp fossils peg their existence to 32 million years ago. These fossils may help explain how the Pacific Ocean's underwater 'forests' came to be. The kelp forests that hug the Pacific ...