Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

Photo credit: daisyferret1 The Whitewater Gorge is one of those geological features that makes you realize Indiana has way ...

The newly described mosasaur Tylosaurus rex spanned up to 43 feet (13 meters) long and may have been one of the fiercest ...

In the crushing darkness of the hadal zone—deep ocean trenches plunging 6,000 m to nearly 11,000 m—scientists have uncovered ...

The companies that drilled these cores were largely unaware that within these mudstones were fossils of microscopic organisms ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Scientists have finally identified the mysterious “golden orb” discovered deep in the Gulf of Alaska during a NOAA expedition ...

A new exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum shines a light on Jurassic marine life and asks what their extinction could teach us about protecting the oceans now.

A broad swath of the Pacific Ocean is simmering from an exceptional marine heat wave that scientists warn could just be settling in. Marine animals are already feeling its effects.

Somewhere on the dark, silty floor of the central Pacific, more than four kilometers below the surface, a tiny crustacean was ...