Video surveillance from Welsh conservationists has captured the first fleeting glimpse of a severely endangered shark since ...

Unearthing Africa’s Permian Past For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and ...

Nearly 445 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician period, Earth faced its first known mass extinction,an event so ...

To say sharks are ancient is a behemoth of an understatement. They evolved around 450 million years ago, before Saturn’s ...

Citation: “The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota.” Edie, Collins, and Jablonski, Science Advances, May 21, 2025.

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, and its impact on land has long been debated.

Phanerozoic marine biodiversity : a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes / Martin Aberhan and Wolfgang Kiessling ; Coordinated stasis reconsidered : a perspective at fifteen years / ...

A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a plesiosaur.

Object Details Author Wignall, P. B Contents A time of dying -- Extinction in the shadows -- The killing seas -- Troubled times in the Triassic -- Triassic downfall -- Pangea's final blow -- Pangea's ...

Expedited assessments of impacted species welcomedStrong nature laws are the safety net the ocean, and communities that depend on it need. The ...