For decades, a set of “baby mammoth” bones in an Alaska museum promised to rewrite the story of when these Ice Age giants ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

In the fall, some right whales migrate from their northern feeding grounds down to the warmer waters off the United States’ ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

If we can find ways to more realistically represent these processes in the models, then our understanding of what's going to ...

The oceans just keep getting hotter. According to new research from dozens of international scientists published in Advances ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...