Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Baby turtles are some of the cutest shelled animals on Earth. However, did you know that sea turtles usually hatch at night? Or that they imprint on the magnetic field of the beach where they were ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much life has filled the seas over the last 540 million years. Published in the ...

Known to only live in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Solumbellula appeared in the Pacific for the first time to ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...

Ocean Ramsey Reveals the Unexpected Animal She Trained with to Prevent Deadly Shark Attacks The professional shark diver and ocean conservationist is the center of Netflix's new documentary ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely so black-and-white.

Ocean Ramsey shared that she used horses to practice her "redirecting" shark technique to prevent them from hurting her in emergency situations underwater ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.