Whereas solely 4 species of slow-moving aquatic herbivores of the order Sirenia stay on Earth, many alternative sorts of sea cows lived over the previous 47 million years. Sea cows have lived alongside the coasts of each continent however Antarctica, and at instances quite a few species coexisted. A brand ...

Fossils of an enormous killer mosasaur have been found, together with the fossilized stays of its prey.

A brand new examine advances the understanding of the position that continents have performed within the chemical evolution of Earth's oceans, with implications for understanding atmospheric oxygenation and world local weather oscillations. 

For the primary time, scientists measure oxygen stream into the deep ocean inside of the Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland. They studied how a lot oxygen absorbed by the ocean every winter makes it into the deep, fast-flowing currents that in the end transport it throughout the globe.

Whereas a lot is thought about excessive climate occasions on land, there was little analysis into people who happen within the ocean. A examine led by ETH Zurich makes use of fashions to point out for the primary time that marine heatwaves, and extremes with excessive acidity or low oxygen ...

Scientists have measured information of wooden flowing to reservoirs and coastal areas to estimate the magnitude of worldwide wooden motion.

Microbiology researchers have shed new mild on the mechanisms of carbon biking within the ocean, utilizing a novel strategy to trace which microbes are consuming several types of natural carbon produced by widespread phytoplankton species.