The Late Devonian represents a critical interval in Earth’s history, marked by a profound restructuring of marine biodiversity and a series of mass extinction events. This period witnessed ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Among these are the late Devonian extinction, 372 million years ago, and the late Ordovician extinctions, around 445 million years ago.

The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its size ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

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.

Earth has already faced five mass extinctions—and scientists say the sixth has begun. Species are vanishing, climates are shifting, and humans may be next. Is there any way out of this?

What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the past and the future of biodiversity. Marine bivalves lost around ...