The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...

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BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – A viral video showing the capture of a giant manta ray off Panama City Beach ignited public backlash this past summer. The manta ray was removed from Florida waters under a ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all. When you purchase through ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...