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.

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Some USF faculty and students are divided on whether the protection act is a scientific necessity or simply an emotional response to a circulating video.

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

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Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

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The Mirror meets Ali Porteous, star of the new series of Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, who lives one mile south of the ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Explore the fascinating and lethal world of ocean brine pools, known as 'lakes of death,' which harbor unique ecosystems and ...