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

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

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

The Nature Conservancy's Diamond Y Spring Preserve is pictured. The Diamond Y Invertebrates (Diamond tryonia, Gonzales tryonia and Pecos amphipod) live in these springs systems. (Jacqueline ...

A visiting research scientist has strengthened the island’s knowledge base on insects and other invertebrate life. Danni Sherwood, a senior conservation officer for the Supporting Atlantic Territories ...

Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only a small fraction of an estimated two million total ...

Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of ...

Aquaculture is now the fastest-growing food production sector globally, supplying more than half of the fish and seafood ...

The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...