Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study shows this pattern has been repeating for nearly 450 million years. Researchers built one of the largest collections of marine body size data ever put together, drawing on almost 9,000 recorded changes and over 1.6 million individual […]
Brine pools kill marine life because extreme salinity, oxygen absence, and toxic chemicals stop all cellular functions/ Courtesy University of Miami Brine pools, often nicknamed underwater lakes or lakes of death, are some of the most dangerous environments in the ocean. They are pockets of water so salty and oxygen-free that they form sharp, visible […]
A remarkable fossil discovery on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago has unveiled the oldest known oceanic reptile ecosystem from the Age of Dinosaurs. More than 30,000 fossils, including teeth, bones, and coprolites, have been recovered, representing a diverse array of marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish, and sharks that thrived around 249 […]
