The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

The researchers focused on the marine animal fossil record – the ... data that provides information about ancient ocean oxygen levels and temperature conditions to build a climate model for ...

The scene takes on added meaning knowing that at least one of the crew members aboard the Dragon has a particular affinity for the sea. Williams, had originally been expected to touch down with ...

“But due to technological and economic constraints, there are many observation gaps and some areas are inaccessible to humans, such as under sea ice or during harsh weather.” Understanding how these ...