UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the Ordovician Period, when global sea levels were much higher than today. In a ...

On Friday the University of South Alabama celebrated a major expansion to the facilities for its marine sciences program, a step officials say will benefit research, education, and even public policy ...

If you spend time on a boat, snorkeling, or looking at fish tanks, you may quickly realize that life underwater looks incredibly different than animals and other life that lives on the surface.

Listen to UCLA professor Tonya Kane discuss her journey to UCLA, travels abroad and advice for undergraduates. Megan Vahdat: This is “Bruin to Bruin,” a Daily Bruin podcast that interviews influential ...

Protecting vulnerable Hampton Roads communities and regional marine ecosystems from the effects of a changing climate will require extensive research, innovative thinking, well-designed programs and, ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons colonized the open ocean. When they died, their remains fell like snow ...

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