While working on an 85-million-year-long record of fish and shark abundance, researchers discovered a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago.

A new Yale study vindicates the often-maligned reputation of an ancient assortment of worms, trilobites, and other animals that once lived in Earth’s oceans.

Species loss may actually underestimate human influence upon the biosphere, according to new research by scientists at Yale and Princeton.

Species loss may actually underestimate human influence upon the biosphere, according to new research by scientists at Yale and Princeton.

Yale oceanographer Mary-Louise Timmermans discusses the loss of sea ice and the role Arctic regions play in addressing climate change.

Islands jutting up from the world’s oceans provided conditions necessary for early life to flourish, a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist suggests.