Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic reconstructions of these ancient oceans, cephalopods – the animal ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found ...

This video explores Mars billions of years ago when it had a thicker atmosphere, active volcanoes, and vast bodies of liquid ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though the planet was warmer than today. Oxygen levels only plunged millions of ...

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An ancient ocean retained oxygen despite global warming, revealing unexpected insights into oceanic climate change.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

“These findings revise the view of the Cretaceous ocean as a world dominated only by large vertebrate predators,” study ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be much more stable—and robust—than previously thought. Analyzing nitrogen ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient underwater volcanoes may explain why marine life repeatedly collapsed during the Triassic, according to new geological ...