I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

The whale tooth from Valencina, measuring 17cm tall and 7cm wide and weighing over 0.5kg, provides a unique glimpse into the past. Analysis of the fossil revealed it came from an adult sperm whale ...

Tiny fossils reveal how water flow shaped the early marine ecosystem TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 19, 2025, 20:00 IST Share ...

Past volcanic warming linked to marine extinctions, high-resolution fossil data show by Nanjing University School of Earth Sciences and Engineering edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan ...