Did plants nearly wipe out all marine life on Earth—twice?

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...
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"Like an ‘aircraft’ hovering in the middle of the water." Ghostly cavefish found beneath the ground in China

The otherworldly Yang's plateau loach is one of hundreds freshwater fish species described in 2025, new report reveals.

Greenhouse gas fluxes in Everglades provide path for maximizing carbon capture via water management

The Florida Everglades is a complicated climate actor. The 1.5-million-acre wetland system remains a carbon sink, removing an ...
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Earth's oldest crystals suggest an early start for plate tectonics

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest known fragments of Earth rocks. Some date back to the Hadean Eon, which ...